Lua - passing arguments to a script

I recently learned how to make lua scripts for tshark. I believe I recall seeing in passing that passing args from command line to script cannot be done at this time. I don't recall where that was though.

Someone had asked this a while ago on one of the mailing lists...

The only way (AFAIK) to pass arguments to a WS Lua script is to use environment variables, as shown here:

$ echo "print('DEBUG', os.getenv('DEBUG'))" > test.lua
$ DEBUG=1 tshark -v -Xlua_script:test.lua 
DEBUG   1
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