Opencpn-cmd(1)

💖 Opencpn-cmd(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, we're doing the opencpn-cmd page 🎀 it lives in the General Commands Manual section and it's literally the CLI interface era of your fave chartplotter ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

opencpn-cmd — Chartplotter and GPS Navigation Software CLI interface 🗺️💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

opencpn-cmd [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. she takes options and she goes 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so opencpn-cmd gives you command line access to some of the basic functionality that's available in opencpn. iconic behaviour honestly.

⚠️ heads up bestie — it's in alpha state. so like, she's cute, she's promising, she's not fully cooked yet. be nice to her 😭

right now, opencpn-cmd supports various functions to load plugins and to display some configuration information. that's the whole menu for now, and yes she ate 🍓

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — Show help info. she tells you how to use her, as she should 💅

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🌈 RUNNING 🌈

okay so depending on where you're living (OS-wise) you run her a little differently. let's go platform by platform, no cap 👇

🐧 Debian/Ubuntu

after you build, opencpn-cmd is available in the build directory and you can run it directly:

$ cd build
$ cmake ...
$ make
$ ./opencpn-cmd --help

and after sudo make install she's globally available 🌍✨ also! opencpn-cmd is included in the .deb packages. so if you're a deb girlie you're already set 🎀

📦 Flatpak

make a local Flatpak build as described in https://opencpn-manuals.github.io/main/opencpn-dev/linux.html#_flatpak — this will also make a local installation, two birds, one slay 🦋

opencpn-cmd needs to run in the Flatpak sandbox. Do:

$ flatpak run --command=bash --devel org.opencpn.OpenCPN
📦 opencpn-cmd --help

(yes the 📦 is literally part of the prompt in there, cute right, we love a themed prompt 💖)

🍎 MacOS

after a local build followed by sudo make install, opencpn-cmd is available in /usr/local/bin/. run using:

$ /usr/local/bin/OpenCPN.app/Contents/MacOS/opencpn-cmd --help

the installer installs it under Applications. run using:

$ /Applications/OpenCPN.app/Contents/MacOS/opencpn-cmd --help

main character energy in the Applications folder fr fr 👑

🪟 Windows

the NSIS installer installs opencpn-cmd in the installation directory. in a standard install do:

> cd "\Program Files (x86)\OpenCPN"
> opencpn-cmd --help

look at the little > prompt, she's so windows-coded 💀

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• opencpn(1) — the big sister, go say hi 🌸

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and that's the whole page bestie, you understood it perfectly, I'm so proud of you 😭💜

this was the Opencpn-cmd(1) page, dated Dec 2022, from the General Commands Manual. go forth and --help responsibly ✨🎀💖