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Re:TIO: Try it online by lucb1e on Saturday July 15, 2017 @09:44PM (#14780068)
Oh command line options. Then what are 'arguments', a little further below?
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Re:TIO: Try it online by potato44 on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:34AM (#14780493)
Options are what get passed to the interpreter. Arguments get passed to the program. How the interpreter gets called for most languages roughly goes like:

   interpreter options input.tio arguments
Where input.tio is the file containing the code.
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