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+<title>Jalview Command Line Arguments: introduction</title>
+<body>
+
+ <h1>Jalview Command Line Arguments: introduction</h1>
+
+ <p>
+ <a href="clarguments.html">Jalview Command Line Arguments: summary</a>
+ <br/>
+ Jalview Command Line Arguments: introduction
+ <br/>
+ <a href="clarguments-basic.html">Jalview Command Line Arguments: basic usage</a>
+ <br/>
+ <a href="clarguments-advanced.html">Jalview Command Line Arguments: advanced usage</a>
+ <br/>
+ <a href="clarguments-argfiles.html">Jalview Command Line Arguments: argfiles</a>
+ </p>
+
+ <hr/>
+
+ <p>
+ From version 2.11.3.0 Jalview processes a new set of command line arguments
+ which allow more powerful and flexible combinations of arguments, though can
+ also be used for very simple use cases too.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ These new arguments are all accessed with a <code>--doubledash</code> form of
+ command line argument (with the one exception where simply opening one or more
+ files can be performed without any arguments other than the filenames).
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ The old command line arguments can still be used (see
+ <a href="clarguments-old.html">the old page on command line arguments</a>) so
+ existing scripts utilising them should not break.
+ <br/>
+ <strong>These are now deprecated and will be removed</strong> in a future version of Jalview.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ However, you cannot mix old and new style arguments, so if you use any
+ <code>-singledash</code> arguments (with the exception of <code>-help</code> or <code>-h</code>), they will all be interpreted as
+ old style arguments with the new <code>--doubledash</code>
+ arguments being ignored. If you have a script
+ that uses the old arguments without any dashes, and uses the bare-word
+ <code>open</code> then these will also be interpreted as old style arguments.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Warning!</strong> If you use command line arguments without any dashes and
+ <em>don't</em> use the bare-word argument <code>open</code> then all
+ your arguments will be interpreted as alignment files to be opened by the
+ new command line argument process!
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ To launch Jalview from the command line, see
+ <a href="commandline.html">running Jalview from the command line</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ Continue to <a href="clarguments-basic.html">Jalview Command Line Arguments: basic usage</a>.
+
+
+</body>
+</html>