How to pass argument(input) in an npx command to run the npm package

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I have an npm package that takes JSON file as input(argument).
I want to know How to pass input via CLI while running an npm package using npx?
I set up the command to run the package but I don’t know how to give input via CLI.
In my package.json file, I have these two commands.

  "bin": {
    "biz-card": "index.js",
    "test": "app.js"
  },

I want to pass an argument to the test command so that it can run the app.js file
app.js file code

 #!/usr/bin/env node

module.export = {
    sayHello: (name) => {
        console.log(`Hello ${name}`);
    }
}

Anyone can help me with this

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process.argv is an array of the arguments passed to the current process, that’s what you use:

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/process.html#process_process_argv

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Hello there,
Thanks for your help.

Now, I did like this.

#!/usr/bin/env node
module.export = {
    sayHello: () => {
        console.log(`Hello ${process.argv[2]}`);
    }
}

and run this command on terminal
npx -p openapi-test-package-rishi test rishi

But this doesn’t call the sayHello function, it just installed the package, I didn’t see any output.

What am I missing?

Can you please tell me?

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#!/usr/bin/env node

console.log(`Hello ${process.argv[2]}`);

It’s a script, it just runs the code then exits. If you just define a function without calling it then it won’t do anything, all you’ve done is written the definition of a function

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5

Ok Now I got it
Thanks

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function sayHello() {
  console.log(`Hello ${process.argv[2]}`);
}

sayHello()
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One more thing I want to know that If I want to take a file from the command line and then I want to read the data of the file.

How should I do that?

I know I can use fs to read the file? but How I access the path of the file?

Should I take the path of the file as input??

Please give some suggestions

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Yes, normally you would take the path of the file as input if you want to allow a user to input any file

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so, I think the path should be absolute
or is their any other approach?

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Not sure what you mean, you would need to show me an example of what you’re trying to do

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Let say user want to convert the file from a HTML to pdf then I need to take the file as a input from the cli and inside our npm package we convert the file.

Should I take the file using file path(absolute or relative path)?

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If this doesn’t make sense, please leave this for now.
I’ll give more details about this later on.

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Well, wherever you run the script, that folder is the root, so like

const fname = process.argv[2] //or whatever this is
const fpath = path.join(__dirname, fname);

Then run like node ./myscript.js file.html in the folder with the file in

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Now, I understood.

Thanks for your help

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