Command line arguments are extra commands you can use when launching a program so that the program's functionality will change. Depending on the program, these arguments can be used to add more ...

Some programs provide the ability to add arguments when executing it in order to change a particular behavior or modify how the program operates. As an example lets look at the command line ...

Building upon this foundation, we will now look at how to create more complex applications, along with how to parse and use arguments passed to Ada applications on the command line (CLI).

So I'm relatively new to C++ and I am writing code targeted to a Linux platform. I can't seem to find a preferred/standard way to parse command line arguments. I know I can roll my own parser, but ...

That seems perfectly obvious. The backslash makes the next character a non-separator to the command processor, so “bar\ baz” is received by the ssh program argv[n] as the string “bar baz”.