Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

Command-Line Arguments

If you run a script from the command line, for example from a UNIX shell, you can pass the script command-line arguments. You can also specify these arguments in the shortcut command in Windows. For example, under UNIX you can type this at a shell:

% myscript.tcl arg1 arg2 arg3
					

In Windows, you can have a shortcut that runs wish on your script and also passes additional arguments:

"c:\Program Files\TCL82\wish.exe" c:\your\script.tcl arg1
					

The Tcl shells pass the command-line arguments to the script as the value of the argv variable. The number of command-line arguments is given by the argc variable. The name of the program, or script, is not part of argv nor is it counted by argc. Instead, it is put into the argv0 variable. ...