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diff --git a/docs/features/startup_commands.rst b/docs/features/startup_commands.rst
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--- a/docs/features/startup_commands.rst
+++ b/docs/features/startup_commands.rst
@@ -4,10 +4,58 @@ Startup Commands
 ``cmd2`` provides a couple different ways for running commands immediately
 after your application starts up:
 
-1. :ref:`features/misc:Commands At Invocation`
-1. :ref:`features/misc:Initialization Script`
+1. Commands at Invocation
+1. Startup Script
 
-Commands run as part of a startup (initialization) script are always run
-immediately after the application finishes initializing so they are
-guaranteed to run before any *Commands At Invocation*.
+Commands run as part of a startup script are always run immediately after the
+application finishes initializing so they are guaranteed to run before any
+*Commands At Invocation*.
 
+
+Commands At Invocation
+----------------------
+
+.. _Argparse: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html
+
+You can send commands to your app as you invoke it by including them as extra
+arguments to the program. ``cmd2`` interprets each argument as a separate
+command, so you should enclose each command in quotation marks if it is more
+than a one-word command.
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  $ python examples/example.py "say hello" "say Gracie" quit
+  hello
+  Gracie
+
+
+.. note::
+
+   If you wish to disable cmd2's consumption of command-line arguments, you can
+   do so by setting the  ``allow_cli_args`` argument of your ``cmd2.Cmd`` class
+   instance to ``False``.  This would be useful, for example, if you wish to
+   use something like Argparse_ to parse the overall command line arguments for
+   your application::
+
+       from cmd2 import Cmd
+       class App(Cmd):
+           def __init__(self):
+               super().__init__(allow_cli_args=False)
+
+
+Startup Script
+--------------
+
+.. _AliasStartup: https://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2/blob/master/examples/alias_startup.py
+
+You can execute commands from an initialization script by passing a file
+path to the ``startup_script`` argument to the ``cmd2.Cmd.__init__()`` method
+like so::
+
+    class StartupApp(cmd2.Cmd):
+        def __init__(self):
+            cmd2.Cmd.__init__(self, startup_script='.cmd2rc')
+
+This text file should contain a :ref:`Command Script
+<features/scripting:Command Scripts>`. See the AliasStartup_ example for a
+demonstration.