<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You might be interested in pdsend and pdreceive, the command line tools included with pd.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>.hc</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 28, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">In the patch:<BR>[receive bajesus]<BR>|<BR>[particular]<BR><BR>In the command line:<BR>pd -open <patch> -send ";bajesus sugar-smacks"<BR>The semicolon makes all the difference.<BR>I also found that it works to say <BR>-send ";bajesus $VAR" inside a bash script, if you're into that kind of thing.<BR>I have no idea where the message goes if you don't use a semicolon.<BR><BR>-Chuckk<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"> On 10/28/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">David Merrill</B> <<A href="mailto:david.merrill@gmail.com">david.merrill@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <DIV style="">hey Chuckk -<DIV>I was wondering about this just yesterday.. How do you address the message to a particular object when you invoke the -send flag from the command line? Can you show an example?</DIV><DIV>thanks, </DIV><DIV>-David M.</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_115e6a83efe98a4a_1"><DIV>On Oct 28, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:</DIV><BR></SPAN></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_115e6a83efe98a4a_3"> Okay, I figured out -send.<BR>-Chuckk<BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 10/28/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Chuckk Hubbard</B> <<A href="mailto:badmuthahubbard@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> badmuthahubbard@gmail.com</A>> wrote: </SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is it possible to send a command-line argument that can be used as $n inside a patch? 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