# Command line parameters in parallel

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/command-line-parameters-in-parallel/24863>\
**Category:** Julia at Scale\
**Created:** [June 2, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/command-line-parameters-in-parallel/24863 "2019-06-02T20:26:38Z")\
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If I’ve got a julia script that’s using `Distributed` for shared memory parallel computing, and I want to read in a command line parameter (i.e., number of iterations per worker), what’s the right way to do this?