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Parse command-line arguments with Bun

The argument vector is the list of arguments passed to the program when it is run. It is available as Bun.argv.

cli.ts
console.log(Bun.argv);

Running this file with arguments results in the following:

bun run cli.ts --flag1 --flag2 value
[ '/path/to/bun', '/path/to/cli.ts', '--flag1', '--flag2', 'value' ]

To parse argv into a more useful format, util.parseArgs would be helpful.

Example:

cli.ts
import { parseArgs } from "util";

const { values, positionals } = parseArgs({
  args: Bun.argv,
  options: {
    flag1: {
      type: 'boolean',
    },
    flag2: {
      type: 'string',
    },
  },
  strict: true,
  allowPositionals: true,
});

console.log(values);
console.log(positionals);

then it outputs

$ bun run cli.ts --flag1 --flag2 value
{
  flag1: true,
  flag2: "value",
}
[ "/path/to/bun", "/path/to/cli.ts" ]