Pass arguments into C program from command line

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You could use getopt.

 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <unistd.h>

 int
 main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
   int bflag = 0;
   int sflag = 0;
   int index;
   int c;

   opterr = 0;

   while ((c = getopt (argc, argv, "bs")) != -1)
     switch (c)
       {
       case 'b':
         bflag = 1;
         break;
       case 's':
         sflag = 1;
         break;
       case '?':
         if (isprint (optopt))
           fprintf (stderr, "Unknown option `-%c'.\n", optopt);
         else
           fprintf (stderr,
                    "Unknown option character `\\x%x'.\n",
                    optopt);
         return 1;
       default:
         abort ();
       }

   printf ("bflag = %d, sflag = %d\n", bflag, sflag);

   for (index = optind; index < argc; index++)
     printf ("Non-option argument %s\n", argv[index]);
   return 0;
 }

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