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  <h2>Starting Ardour on the command line (Linux)</h2>
<p>Like (almost) any other program on Linux, Ardour can be started on the command line.</p>
<ul>
<li>type the following command in a terminal window<br/><pre>ardour3</pre>
</li>
<li>to start Ardour with an existing session, type the following command in a terminal window<br
/><pre>ardour3 /path/to/session</pre>
<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>
</li>
<li>to start Ardour with a new, named session, type the following command in a terminal
window<br/ ><pre>ardour3 -N /path/to/new/session</pre>
<p>replacing /path/to/new/session with the name of the folder where you want the session stored.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Command Line Options</h3>