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2020-05-24

• 08:17 UTC (new) 2020-05-24 Two parameters and at least one required in yargs . . . . mbork – I happen to write shell scripts in Node.JS quite often. They usually consume some kind of command-line agruments, and my library of choice to parse them is yargs. Recently, I had a situation where there were two parameters and it was required that one of them is given. A bit surprisingly, yargs does not seem to have an option requiredAlternative or something that says “of the following two parameters, at least one must be given” (it has a conflicts method and option, either of which can be used to say “of these two parameters, at most one may be given”, though). Happily, there is a simple way to enforce such a requiement due to the quite general “check” method.

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