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-title: Starting Ardour From the Command Line
+title: Starting Ardour From the Command Line (Linux)
+menu-title: Starting from Linux Cmdline
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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>
+ Like (almost) any other program on Linux, Ardour can be started on the
+ command line. Type the following command in a terminal window:
</p>
-</li>
-</ul>
+<kbd class="cmd lin">ardour3</kbd>
+<p>
+ To start Ardour with an existing session:
+</p>
+<kbd class="cmd lin">ardour3 <em>/path/to/session</em></kbd>
+<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>
+<p>
+ To start Ardour with a new, named session:
+</p>
+<kbd class="cmd lin">ardour3 -N <em>/path/to/session</kbd>
+
<h3>Other Command Line Options</h3>