Kexi/Handbook/References/Command-Line Options
Usage
The command-line interface provides the option to start the KEXI application, conveniently open projects within its environment, and carry out specific additional actions.
A general way to start the KEXI application:
kexi [options] file
Information
It is possible that the command kexi on your computer should be in the form of kexi-3.2 or kexi-3.3, depending on the version of the application installed. Such version-dependent naming of KEXI executable facilitate installation of multiple versions of KEXI.
Options
- -h, --help
- Displays help on commandline options.
- --help-all
- Displays help including Qt specific options.
- -v, --version
- Displays version information.
- --author
- Show author information.
- --license
- Show license information.
- --desktopfile <file name>
- The base file name of the desktop entry for this application.
- --createdb
- Create a new, blank project using specified database driver and database name and exit immediately. You will be asked for confirmation if overwriting is needed.