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-Added support for reading command line arguments from a file using the prefix character '@',
-like e.g.: ``pytest @tests.txt``.
+Added support for reading command line arguments from a file using the prefix character ``@``, like e.g.: ``pytest @tests.txt``. The file must have one argument per line.