I want to package some .ogg files with a patch that will be bundled in a tarball with some other stuff. So referring to them in the patch by way of 'open /Users/jstoner/file.ogg' isn't gonna work.

So I need to use relative paths. So I

cd /Users/jstoner/.../pd
/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd-extended --open oscserv.pd

(this is on my Mac, OSX 10.5.4) thinking this would be good function to do in a bash script. It starts, but it doesn't open my patch. When I open the patch manually, it does find my oggs by relative path, so I got that going for me. But I'd like to make this easy for users.

So is -open just broken? or is there something else I'm missing?

aack-- I tried both -open and --open, neither works.

i think this is a known issue on OS X - seems the only command line flag accepted is -help ? suggested workaround here isn't much help for your situation:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2062558&group_id=55736&atid=478070