bionic (1) pdsend.1.gz

NAME

       pdsend - send messages to pd on this or a remote machine

SYNOPSIS

       pdsend port-number [hostname] [udp|tcp]

DESCRIPTION

       Pdsend sends messages to pd(1), via a socket connection, from pdsend's standard input.  This input can be
       any stream of Pd messages separated by semicolons.  This is probably the easiest way to control  pd  from
       another application.  The protocol used is easy to implement and is called FUDI.

       The  port  number  should agree with the port number of a "netreceive" object within pd.  The hostname is
       "localhost" by default and can be a domain name or an IP address.  The protocol is "tcp" by default; this
       does  a  handshake  to guarantee that all messages arrive complete and in their correct order; if you are
       sending messages locally or point-to-point you can often get away with the faster udp protocol instead.

       You can also use this to talk to a Max "pdnetreceive" object or even just a "pdreceive" in another shell.
       If  you're writing another program you're welcome to just grab the sources for pdsend/pdreceive and adapt
       them to your own ends; they're part of the Pd distribution.

SEE ALSO

       pd(1), pdreceive(1)