CLI Open Macro on OSX question

[David Chen]

Hi all.

I am trying to come up with a command line macro to open a file and run a macro command on Mac OS X.  Here is what my command looks like:

    open -a ImageJ64 --args -debug -eval 'open("/tmp/dave.png");  run("Make Composite", "display=Composite"); '

It works fine if I do not have ImageJ64 running already.  However if the ImageJ64 application is already running my image is not loaded and the command is not run.

I also tried doing it this way:

open -a ImageJ64 /tmp/dave.png --args -debug -eval 'run("Make Composite", "display=Composite"); '

But what happens here is that the script is run first, before the image is loaded, defeating the purpose.

Any insight into my problem would be appreciated.

Dave


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