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22 <title>Jalview Command Line Arguments</title>
25 <strong>The Jalview Executable's Command Line Arguments</strong>
28 <a href="commandline.html">running Jalview from the command line</a>
31 <br />Jalview processes arguments on the command line sequentially. If
32 you would like to pass a <a href="jvlfiles.html">'JVL' file</a> containing
33 <a href="../memory.html">memory settings</a> or any other launch
34 parameters, then include it at the beginning of the command line to
35 ensure they are processed before any remaining arguments.
37 <table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
39 <td width="27%"><div align="center">-nodisplay</div></td>
40 <td width="73%"><div align="left">Run Jalview without
41 User Interface. (automatically disables questionnaire, version
42 and usage stats checks)</div></td>
46 <td><div align="center">-props FILE/URL</div></td>
47 <td><div align="left">Use the given Jalview properties
48 file instead of users default.</div></td>
52 <td><div align="center">-out FILE</div></td>
53 <td><div align="left">
54 Redirect all output and error messaging to FILE.
56 If FILE is a relative path, this will be relative to the Jalview app directory.
61 <td><div align="center">-features FILE/URL</div></td>
62 <td><div align="left">
64 Use the given file to add sequence features to an alignment.
65 See <a href="featuresFormat.html" target="NEW">Features
66 File</a> (Known as Groups file prior to 2.08) description.
73 <div align="center">-colour COLOURSCHEME</div>
75 <td>Set the colourscheme for the alignment. This can be any
76 of the built-in colourschemes, a name of a predefined
77 colourscheme (defined in the Jalview properties file), or an
78 'inline' colourscheme (see the applet's colour parameter for
79 more information).</td>
83 <div align="center">-annotations FILE/URL</div>
85 <td>Add precalculated annotations to the alignment. See <a
86 href="annotationsFormat.html" target="NEW">Annotation
92 <div align="center">-tree FILE/URL</div>
94 <div align="left">Load the given newick format tree file
95 onto the alignment</div>
100 <div align="center">-questionnaire URL</div>
102 <div align="left">Queries the given URL for information
103 about any Jalview user questionnaires</div>
108 <div align="center">-noquestionnaire</div>
110 <div align="left">Turn off questionnaire check</div>
115 <div align="center">-nonews</div>
118 Disable check for <a href="../webServices/newsreader.html">Jalview
119 news</a> on startup (not recommended other than for classroom /
126 <div align="center">-nousagestats</div>
128 <div align="left">Turn off google analytics usage tracking</div>
133 <div align="center">-[no]sortbytree</div>
135 <div align="left">Enable or disable automatic sorting of
136 associated view when a new tree is displayed</div>
141 <div align="center">-groovy FILE/URL</div>
143 <div align="left">Execute groovy script in FILE (where
144 FILE may be 'STDIN' to read from the standard input) after all
145 other arguments have been processed</div>
150 <div align="center">-jabaws URL</div>
152 <div align="left">Specify the URL of the preferred JABAWS
158 <div align="center">-fasta FILE</div>
162 <div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in Fasta
167 <td><div align="center">-clustal FILE</div></td>
168 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
169 Clustal format.</div></td>
172 <td><div align="center">-msf FILE</div></td>
174 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in MSF
178 <td><div align="center">-pileup FILE</div></td>
179 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
180 Pileup format.</div></td>
183 <td><div align="center">-pir FILE</div></td>
185 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in PIR
189 <td><div align="center">-pfam FILE</div></td>
190 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
191 PFAM format.</div></td>
194 <td><div align="center">-blc FILE</div></td>
195 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in BLC
199 <td><div align="center">-json FILE</div></td>
200 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
201 JSON format.</div></td>
204 <td><div align="center">-jalview FILE</div></td>
206 <td><div align="left">Create alignment file FILE in
207 Jalview format.</div></td>
210 <td><div align="center">-png FILE</div></td>
211 <td><div align="left">Create PNG image FILE from
212 alignment.</div></td>
215 <td><div align="center">-imgMap FILE</div></td>
217 <td><div align="left">Create HTML file FILE with image
218 map of PNG image.</div></td>
221 <td><div align="center">-eps FILE</div></td>
222 <td><div align="left">Create EPS file FILE from
223 alignment.</div></td>
226 <td><div align="center">-svg FILE</div></td>
227 <td><div align="left">Create Scalable Vector Graphics
228 file FILE from alignment.</div></td>
231 <td><div align="center">-biojsMSA FILE</div></td>
232 <td><div align="left">Write an HTML page to display
233 the alignment with the <a href="biojsmsa.html">
234 BioJS MSAviewer MSA</a>