How to access original command-line argument string in Ruby?

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Published on 2010-06-03T14:26:53Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 14:34 UTC
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I'm trying to access the original command line argument string in Ruby (ie - not using the pre-split/separated ARGV array). Does anyone know how to do this? For example:

$> ruby test.rb command "line" arguments

I want to be able to tell if 'line' had quotes around it:

"command \"line\" arguments"

Any tips? Thanks in advance

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