3 title: Starting Ardour From the Command Line
8 <h2>Starting Ardour on the command line (Linux)</h2>
9 <p>Like (almost) any other program on Linux, Ardour can be started on the command line.</p>
11 <li>type the following command in a terminal window<br/><pre>ardour3</pre>
13 <li>to start Ardour with an existing session, type the following command in a terminal window<br
14 /><pre>ardour3 /path/to/session</pre>
15 <p>replacing /path/to/session with the actual path to your session. You can specify either the session folder or any session file inside the folder (including snapshots).</p>
17 <li>to start Ardour with a new, named session, type the following command in a terminal
18 window<br/ ><pre>ardour3 -N /path/to/new/session</pre>
19 <p>replacing /path/to/new/session with the name of the folder where you want the session stored.
23 <h3>Other Command Line Options</h3>