Mac Preview.app Command Line Parameters

It is easy enough to open files with a shell command...
... but if you want to communicate with Preview and tell it to do something, like crop, you need to use AppleScript or Automator. It is possible to run AppleScript from the command line, but is there some reason why you specifically want to use a shell command?
Whether you can script an operation like cropping, I don't know. There is an AppleScript forum under the 'Mac OS X Technologies' subheading. Probably Preview is not the right tool for the job.

The options you pass on the command line are the options to the command invoked. For example, when you execute dotnet publish -output /buildoutput, the -output option and its value are passed to the publish command. Dotnet/sdk GitHub repository.NET Core installation guide; Related Articles. The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles,.

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