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Offline Bob M

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Command line options for Photo Mechanic
« on: December 13, 2009, 06:38:38 PM »
Does Photo Mechanic have various command line options?  (By experiment, I found that, at the very least, you can specify on the command line which directory is used for the initial contact sheet.)  Are there other command line options and parameters?  If so, is there any puplic documentation?

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Re: Command line options for Photo Mechanic
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2009, 06:52:12 PM »
Bob,

Quote from: Bob M on December 13, 2009, 06:38:38 PM
Does Photo Mechanic have various command line options?  (By experiment, I found that, at the very least, you can specify on the command line which directory is used for the initial contact sheet.)  Are there other command line options and parameters?  If so, is there any puplic documentation?

No.  You found the one and only parameter.

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Re: Command line options for Photo Mechanic
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2019, 02:56:21 PM »
what would be the format to launch PM and open a specific directory via command line?
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Re: Command line options for Photo Mechanic
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2019, 03:59:39 PM »
Quote from: sidelinepros on February 27, 2019, 02:56:21 PM
what would be the format to launch PM and open a specific directory via command line?

Supply a path to the app on the command line?  Things have changed a lot in PM5 over PM4.6.x in the intervening years.

http://wiki.camerabits.com/en/index.php?title=User_Manual_Flat_View#Activation_via_Command_Line

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Re: Command line options for Photo Mechanic
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2019, 05:36:31 PM »
That link is just for activating PM.  I already have it activated.  What I'm working on is a bash script that will create an photo gig directory structure for me and then open PM with a given directory.
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Re: Command line options for Photo Mechanic
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2019, 06:28:58 PM »
Quote from: sidelinepros on February 27, 2019, 05:36:31 PM
That link is just for activating PM.  I already have it activated.  What I'm working on is a bash script that will create an photo gig directory structure for me and then open PM with a given directory.

That link documents what command line options Photo Mechanic officially obeys at this time.  There is no command-line option that tells PM to open a specific folder specified as a path.

Given that you're writing a bash script, I'll assume that you're on macOS (the original poster was on Windows).

You should be able to do the following:

open -a "Photo Mechanic 5.app" /Full/Path/To/Your/Directory

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