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Putting aside the security implications of running a script someone gives me, how can I tell, in advance, that the script requires a certain number of arguments? Without reading the code.
If someone just gives me a script, is there a way to know that it takes 4 arguments or whatever the case may be?
I guess I am looking for a best practices answer. I am obviously not a developer and just curious as to how some things are done.
What kind of script you want to know ? Shell or Windows Batch or Ruby or Python ?
For scripts in Python, It’s impossible to know the number of arguments without reading the code. In Python, we can pass any arguments into Python script. The script determines whether to use them.