Actually, I've thought if we could use a semicolon to seperate patch
from arguments:
pd -open "mypatch1.pd; 1 2 3" -open "mypatch2; foo bar"
Unfortunately, semicolons are not really reserved characters for
filenames, neither on Windows, nor on Linux/macOS, but their use is
certainly discouraged.
On the other hand, colons are forbidden characters on Windows and macOS,
but not on Linux. This means they are not 100% safe, but maybe better
than semicolons. On Pd we don't need to delimit every argument (because
arguments are already delimited by spaces), so a single colon between
patch name and arguments would be sufficient:
pd -open "mypatch1.pd: 1 2 3" -open "mypatch2: foo bar"
Personally, I like this more than using "stateful" command options like
"-args".
Christof
On 09.06.2020 11:13, Mario Buoninfante wrote:
ChucK uses an interesting syntax to pass arguments to programs that we
could consider borrowing:
> chuck myprog.ck:23:anotherArg myprog2.ck:42 <http://myprog2.ck:42>
that in our case would be:
> pd mypatch.pd:23:anotherArg mypatch2.pd:42
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