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Old 04-03-2015, 09:52 PM   #1
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Getting started with command line
This is probably a really dumb question but I'm completely new to command line stuff and I can't even get a sample recipe running after reading the tutorial. To get started on my first recipe I made a myrecipe.recipe file with the example from the tutorial pasted in it but I can't figure out how to run it.

The tutorial says:

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run this command: ebook-convert myrecipe.recipe .epub --test -vv --debug-pipeline debug

Note: On OS X, the command line tools are inside the calibre bundle, for example, if you installed calibre in /Applications the command line tools are in /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/MacOS/.
I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do with these two bits of information. Here is what I've tried so far: First, I simply opened Terminal.app and navigated to my recipe file in /Users/mmarotta/Code/myrecipe.recipe and typed in the command but just got a "-bash: ebook-convert: command not found" error. Then I tried navigating Terminal to the folder with ebook-convert in it and used the full path of the file to point ebook-convert to it but I get the same "command not found" error. I can't even get a basic ebook-convert -h to work without that error.

I tried double clicking directly on the "ebook-convert" file. A Terminal window opened with some text but I couldn't type anything because it had a "logout" command at the end.

Sorry if this is really dumb but how do I get the recipe file into the ebook-convert file? How do I even communicate with the ebook-convert file? Am I even remotely on the right path?
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Old 04-03-2015, 11:29 PM   #2
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Open Terminal, change to directory with .recipe file, run

/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert myfile.recipe .epub -vv
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