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Cannot execute Praat commands on Linux command line

I am trying to test praat (5.3.16) on linux (ubuntu 14.04) command line by running the command below

/usr/bin/praat --open data/hello.wav data/hello.TextGrid

It opens the praat gui "Praat Object" and "Praat Picture" but they are both empty, the terminal does not have ">" indicating that praat is running but nothing is happening.

Please let me know how to execute praat on command line, thank you.

Solution

  • According to Praat's release notes, the --open switch on the command line was only introduced in version 6.0 (and still got a bugfix for multiple files in version 6.0.22):

    6.0 (28 October 2015)

    [...] Praat can now open files from the command line on all platforms. [...]

    The version you mention is almost 7 years old (May 23, 2012), so if that's possible, you probably need to update to a more recent version to have all new features and bug fixes that were made since then.