[cli] fallback to _start value for --exportStart if argument was skipped

[MaxGraey]

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[dcodeIO]

Isn't unquoting something the shell / Node already does according to conventions? Seems to me that postprocessing again can lead to strange issues, in particular if we ever add an option that may depend on inner quotes in strings. Do you have an example of what doesn't work currently and would be fixed?

[MaxGraey]

util/options.js doesn't do this. Does it better add unquotting to options.js?

[dcodeIO]

I think it also doesn't need to, because if one specifies "abc" on the command line, the shell / Node.js already remove the quotes according to their conventions, so the CLI only sees abc anyway.

node -e "console.log(process.argv)" "hello"
[ 'path/to/node', 'hello' ]

[MaxGraey]

But how about web browser mode and asconfig?

[dcodeIO]

I think there one wouldn't specify "\"hello\"", but just put "hello" so that processing the JS/JSON does its natural thing.