INNER CODE UNIT · JavaScript

parseCommand

sindresorhus/meow · source/index.js:49

const parseCommand = (input, options, parserOptions, showHelp) => {
	if (!options.commands) {
		return {command: undefined, input};
	}

	if (input.length === 0) {
		return {command: undefined, input: []};
	}

	const command = String(input[0]);

	if (!options.commands.includes(command)) {
		if (!options.allowUnknownFlags && command.startsWith('-')) {
			// The "command" looks like a flag. Determine whether it genuinely came from
			// before '--' (an unknown parent flag) or after '--' (a post-separator positional
			// being used as the command name). Re-parsing the pre-separator slice is the
			// only reliable way — a simple indexOf would misfire when the same string
			// appears as a flag value earlier in argv.

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