GNU Emacs Manual - Action Arguments

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## Action Arguments

Here is a table of the action arguments and options:

``file'`
  Visit file using `find-file`. See section Visiting Files.
``+linenum file'`
  Visit file using `find-file`, then go to line number linenum in it.
``-l file'`
``--load=file'`
  Load a Lisp library named file with the function `load`. See section Libraries of Lisp Code for Emacs. The library can be found either in the current directory, or in the Emacs library search path as specified with `EMACSLOADPATH` (see section General Variables).
``-f function'`
``--funcall=function'`
  Call Lisp function function with no arguments.
``--eval expression'`
  Evaluate Lisp expression expression.
``--insert=file'`
  Insert the contents of file into the current buffer. This is like what `M-x insert-file` does. See section Miscellaneous File Operations.
``--kill'`
  Exit from Emacs without asking for confirmation.

The init file can access the values of the action arguments as the elements of a list in the variable `command-line-args`. The init file can override the normal processing of the action arguments, or define new ones, by reading and setting this variable.

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