Starting PCGen From the Command Line

You have serveral options when starting PCGen from the command line:

-j
The -j flag asks PCGen to start with the Java look & feel, rather than the System look & feel. You can always make your preference permanent with the Preferences menu.
file1 [... fileN]
You can list files on the command line, and PCGen will try to open them as PC or Party files if they end with .pcg or .pcp. When PCGen first appears, these files will already be open for you as if you had opened them yourself from the File menu.
-Dproperty=value
PCGen recognizes several properties (settings) passed with the -D flag (this is a standard feature of all Java programs). Presently, they are only used for printing without actually showing PCGen. They are:

There are also other options for starting PCGen, but these are not normally used except for development and testing.