inkscape command line, where is it on mac?

Question

This is a kinda silly question. I\'ve installed Inkscape on my mac (Marvericks OS) following this page http://www.inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/

I know there is a comm

Answer 1

I have Inkscape installed in /Applications and running this from a terminal does the trick:

/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape --help

Usage: inkscape-bin [OPTIONS...] [FILE...]

Available options:
  -V, --version                             Print the Inkscape version number

... etc.

For ease of use symlink it to /usr/local/bin i.e.:

ln -s /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape \
      /usr/local/bin/inkscape

In general, on MacOS Inkscape needs to be called with an absolute path, and all files given as arguments should also be full paths. See also:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1449251