This section describes the available command line options for GCstar.

GCstar is launched through the main program, gcstar. When launched without any argument, it will open the graphical user interface and will load the previously opened file. After the application name, you should use a file name. Then GCstar will start and open it.

gcstar collection.gcs

There also other available operations that are triggered through a particular option. They are explained in next sections. You may also launch GCstar with --help option to display a summary of the available options.

gcstar --help

If the -u or --update option is present, GCstar will run in update mode. This is more detailed in Software updates.

If the -x or --execute option is present, GCstar will run in non-interactive mode. This mode could be used to do some tasks without using the graphical interface. There are more details in Command line execution.