Right, so in linux, everything is fine and dandy, I can open pd and put in arguments by simply tapping out

$ pd -nogui

whatever whatever.

When you install Pd in linux, it behaves like a proper application (it's installed right into the OS, the app is in the bin folder e.t.c. e.t.c.)

so running it from the command line is nice and fine.

However on the mac I am stumped.

I can use the command Open to open the application package, if i reference to it in the Applications folder, I can use ./Pd-extended if I root right through the packgace contents. But the former method doesn't allow me to supply arguments, Open gets confused, and the latter method allows to write arugments, but I have no idea if they're passed through -nogui certainly has no effect and it doens't open any locations to any pd files I may supply it.

So what's up? How do I do this?

super thanks

I'm having the same problem on OSX 10.5.8. Using "Open" does not allow arguments and just doing "/Path/to/.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd-extended -nogui" still fires up the GUI.

*******::UPDATE::********

Ok, I seemed to have figured out how to do it. You don't open the "Pd-extended.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd-extended" binary. Instead you have to reference "Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd" and then add your flags. So the command that worked for me was:

"/Applications/PureData/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd -nogui"

I hope that helps some of you out there. I know it had me scratching my head there for a while. I have only tested this with the -nogui flag and it seems to run as it should. I can't say anything about other flags. I guess time will tell.