Args2slice

args2slice

Quick Start

• Command: args2slice [arguments...]
• Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/args2slice
• Full reference: See references/help.md

When To Use This Tool

• Debug quoting, escaping, and whitespace handling before embedding arguments into shell wrappers or generated commands.
• Show exactly how the current shell split argv.
• Produce a copy-pastable Go-style []string{...} literal for debugging or documentation.

Common Patterns

# 1) Check how quoted and unquoted arguments were tokenized
/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/args2slice \
  alpha \
  'two words' \
  --flag

[]string{
    "alpha",
    "two words",
    "--flag",
}

# 2) Verify a complex command line before wrapping it elsewhere
/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/args2slice \
  -db nucleotide \
  -query 'gene name with spaces' \
  'field=a,b,c'

Recommended Workflow

1. Reproduce the exact command-line shape you are trying to debug.
2. Compare the emitted slice against the argv you expected.
3. Fix shell quoting in the original command rather than post-processing the emitted slice.
4. Re-run until spaces, commas, flags, and embedded quotes survive exactly as intended.

Guardrails

• This tool inspects only argv; it does not read stdin or open files for you.
• Output is diagnostic Go-like text, not a structured interchange format.
• No help or version mode is implemented.
• It reflects the shell's tokenization after parsing, so it cannot explain quoting mistakes that prevented the command from starting at all.