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00:01 Hello and welcome to the spoken tutorial on Command Line Arguments.
00:07 In this tutorial, we will learn about main() function with arguments, with an example.
00:15 For this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Operating system version 11.10 and gcc Compiler version 4.6.1 on Ubuntu.
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00:39 Let us start with our program. I have a code file. I will open it.
00:45 File name is main hyphen with hyphen args.c.
00:50 Let me explain the program.
00:53 These are the header files. stdio.h defines core input and output functions.
01:01 stdlib.h header file defines-
  • Numeric conversion function
  • Pseudo-random numbers
  • Generation function
  • Memory allocation
  • Process control functions.
01:16 This is our main() function. Inside this, we have passed two arguments-

int argc, char asterisk asterisk argv (**argv).

01:28 argc refers to the number of command line arguments passed to the program.
01:34 This includes the actual name of the program.
01:38 argv contains actual arguments starting from index 0.
01:44 Index 0 is the name of the program.
01:48 Index 1 will be the first argument passed to the program.
01:53 Index 2 will be the second argument passed to the program and so on.
01:59 This statement will display the total number of arguments passed to the program.
02:05 This will display the first argument passed to the program.
02:09 1 represents the argument at index 1.
02:13 'while' condition will decrement the number of arguments.
02:18 This statement will print all the arguments passed to the program.
02:23 At the end, we have return 0 statement.
02:27 Let us open the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt and T keys simultaneously on your keyboard.
02:35 Type: gcc space main hyphen with hyphen args.c space hyphen o space args. Press Enter.
02:49 Type: dot slash args. Press Enter.
02:54 You can see the output as:

"Total number of arguments are 1"

"The first argument is null"

"arguments are ./args"

03:06 Command line arguments are given during execution.
03:11 Total number of arguments are 1 as the zeroth argument is the executable filename itself.
03:19 The first argument is null as we have not passed any argument to the program.
03:26 Argument is only one i.e. dot slash args.
03:31 Now let us execute again.
03:34 Press the up-arrow key space type: Sunday space Monday space Tuesday. Press Enter.
03:47 Now we can see the output:

Total number of arguments are 4

The first argument is Sunday

Arguments are ./args Sunday Monday and Tuesday .

04:04 Let me explain the output.
04:06 Total number of arguments are 4 as- ./args, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
04:14 The first argument is Sunday.
04:17 The zeroth argument always gives executable file-name.
04:22 Sunday is assigned to first argument.
04:25 Monday is assigned to second argument.
04:28 Tuesday is assigned to third argument.
04:31 This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize.
04:37 In this tutorial, we learnt:
  • Command line arguments
  • argc
  • argv.
04:45 As an assignment, execute the program with different arguments.
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