Arguments passed on by shell to command in Unix

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Published on 2012-10-26T03:42:36Z Indexed on 2012/10/26 5:05 UTC
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I've been going over this question and I can't for the life of me figure out why the answer is what it is. How many arguments are passed to the command by the shell on this command line:
<pig pig -x " " -z -r" " >pig pig pig
a. 8 b. 6 c. 5 d. 7 e. 9
The first symbol is supposed to be the symbol for redirected input but the site isn't letting me use it. [Fixed.]
I looked at this question and said ok...arguments...not options so 2nd pig, then " ", then -r" ", 4th pig and 5th pig...-z and -x are options, so I count 5. The answer is b. 6. Where is the 6th argument that's being passed on?

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