mdi(1)

mdi1

Send g-code commands from the terminal to the running linuxcnc instance

Usage

mdi

Overview

mdi sends G-code commands to LinuxCNC. The command starts an envirmonemt in which G-code commands are sent to the interpreter and machine feedback is displayed.

Usage

send a single command and exit
mdi m2 s1400

interactive session
$mdi
MDI> m3 s1000
MDI> G0 X100
MDI> ^Z
$stopped

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–13

Bugs

None known at this time.

Author

This man page written by andypugh, as part of the LinuxCNC project.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs at https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues

From linuxcnc-uspace 1:2.9.4-2+deb13u1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.