Gio.File.new_for_commandline_arg

function new_for_commandline_arg(arg: String): Gio.File {
    // Gjs wrapper for g_file_new_for_commandline_arg()
}
  

Creates a Gio.File with the given argument from the command line. The value of arg can be either a URI, an absolute path or a relative path resolved relative to the current working directory. This operation never fails, but the returned object might not support any I/O operation if arg points to a malformed path.

Note that on Windows, this function expects its argument to be in UTF-8 -- not the system code page. This means that you should not use this function with string from argv as it is passed to main(). g_win32_get_command_line() will return a UTF-8 version of the commandline. Gio.Application also uses UTF-8 but Gio.ApplicationCommandLine.prototype.create_file_for_arg may be more useful for you there. It is also always possible to use this function with GLib.OptionContext arguments of type GLib.OptionArg.filename.