3.1 Command Line Switches

From the shell command line, PyXPlot accepts the following switches which modify its behaviour:

-h –help

Display a short help message listing the available command-line switches.

-v –version

Display the current version number of PyXPlot.

-q –quiet

Turn off the display of the welcome message on startup.

-V –verbose

Display the welcome message on startup, as happens by default.

-c –colour

Use colour highlighting1 to display output in green, warning messages in amber, and error messages in red.2 These colours can be changed in the terminal section of the configuration file; see Section 7.1 for more details.

-m –monochrome

Do not use colour highlighting, as happens by default.

Footnotes

  1. This will only function on terminals which support colour output.
  2. The authors apologise to those members of the population who are red/green colourblind, but draws their attention to the following sentence.