Nodejs Command line options

Nodejs has many commands which can be used in command line. Few of the most used options are as follows.

-v or –version used to check node version installed in the system

node -v 
node --version

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-c or –check command used to check the syntax without executing the script.

node -c 
node --check

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-h or –help used to print command line options.

node -h 
node --help

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-e will evaluate an argument and will not display the output. Whereas -p will evaluate and print the output.

node -p or node --print
node -e or node -eval

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node or node -i used for REPL env. We have seen this in previous section.