Passing command line args

I'm a beginner in java and I need to know now to write the code that takes in a randon number of numbers at the command line and stores them in an array
ie. the program is called number and when I run it, it has to take in the numbers at the command line
ie. java numbers 12 13 14 15 19 1
then these numbers are to be stored in an array
How can I do this??
Thanking you
Tom

public class Numbers {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Convert to integers
        int[] param = new int[args.length];
        for ( int cnt = 0; cnt < args.length; cnt++ ) {
            try {
                param[cnt] = Integer.parseInt(args[cnt]);
            } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
                System.err.println("Argument " + cnt + " is not integer, using '-1'");
                param[cnt] = -1;
        // use integers ...
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