[Digikam-users] commandline-options

[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Duncan Hill wrote:

> On Monday 31 July 2006 08:13, Christoph Knauer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it possible to start digikam by command-line with an option to use a
> > special database? I plan to work with two different databases, one for
> > developing the picture from the cam, and one as the final base with all
>
> I don't think so.  However, if you were to copy ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc
> to ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc-download and -usb, you could edit the -usb
> version to change the database area to point to the images directory on the
> USB stick.
>
> With that done, a quick shell script, something like:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> DOWNLOAD="~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc-download"
> USB="~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc-usb"
> MASTER="~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc"
>
> if [ $1 eq "camera" ]; then
> 	cp -f $DOWNLOAD $MASTER
> 	digikam
> elsif [ $1 eq "usb" ]; then

-> "elseif"

> 	cp -f $USB $MASTER
> 	digikam
> else
> 	echo "Please choose   $0 camera  or  $0 usb "
> fi
>
> (Warning, untested, may eat your firstborn and cause a solar eclipse.)


Very nice!
Maybe one would like to do a
cp -f $MASTER $DOWNLOAD

cp -f $MASTER $USB

after the calls to digikam to preserve
changes in the rc file.

Thanks,

Arnd