Inkscape CLI syntax to select objects/paths

Question

I have the following SVG-file:

<svg width="18px" height="18px" viewBox="0 0 18 18" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<title>Kalender</title>
<g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd">
    <g transform="translate(-178.000000, -704.000000)" stroke="#0067C5">
        <g transform="translate(139.000000, 20.000000)">
            <g transform="translate(36.000000, 681.000000)">
                <polyline points="7 5.66666667 4.33333333 5.66666667 4.33333333 19.6666667 19.6666667 19.6666667 19.6666667 5.66666667 17 5.66666667"></polyline>
                <polygon points="7 4.33333333 9 4.33333333 9 7 7 7"></polygon>
                <polygon points="15 4.33333333 17 4.33333333 17 7 15 7"></polygon>
                <path d="M9,5 L15,5"></path>
                <path d="M4.33333333,9 L19.6666667,9"></path>
            </g>
        </g>
    </g>
</g>

Which consists of a series of objects with strokes which I need to convert to paths.

In the GUI version of Inkscape the solution to my problem is the following steps:

Select "Edit paths by nodes" tool on the left toolbar (Using the regular selection tool doesn't work)
Click on an object to select it
Then go to "Edit > Select Same > Stroke style" (to select all other objects with same stroke)
Then go to "Path > Stroke to Path"

But I need the CLI syntax for the same operation in order to automate this process for a series of SVG files.

I've tried the following:

inkscape -f $1"-stroketopath/"$svgfile --verb="EditSelectAll" --verb="EditSelectSameStrokeStyle" --verb="StrokeToPath" --verb="FileSave" --verb="FileQuit"

Which doesn't work. And I suspect it fails for the same reason as noted above (that the "Edit > Select Same > Stroke style" operation doesn't work with the regular selection tool (which is utilized in the "Edit > Select all" operation).

So does anyone know how to replace --verb="EditSelectAll" with something that uses the "Edit paths by nodes" tool and then select one or all of the objects in the file?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '18 at 09:25

The solution to this was to run through all of my SVGs and inject an id="inkscape" attribute on the first element of type path, rect, circle, ellipse, line, polyline or polygon.

Then I could run:

inkscape -f $svgfile --select="inkscape" --verb="EditSelectSameStrokeStyle" --verb="StrokeToPath" --verb="SelectionUnion" --verb="FileSave" --verb="FileQuit"

Using the --select command (details here).

The --select command will cause objects that have the ID specified to be selected. This allows various verbs to act upon them. To remove all the selections use --verb=EditDeselect. The object IDs available are dependent on the document specified to load.

Inkscape CLI syntax to select objects/paths

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