# How to start Pluto with a specified notebook?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-pluto-with-a-specified-notebook/108665
**Category:** Pluto
**Created:** [January 11, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-pluto-with-a-specified-notebook/108665 "2024-01-11T09:12:31Z")
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### Author: ![ddrake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@ddrake](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ddrake)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-pluto-with-a-specified-notebook/108665/1 "2024-01-11T09:12:32Z")

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I have a Pluto notebook source file – say, `my_notebook.jl` and would like to start the notebook. I’d expect something like this would work:

```
$ julia -e 'using Pluto; Pluto.run("my_notebook.jl")'

```

but of course it doesn’t. Is there any way to start Pluto and directly load a specified source file / notebook?

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### Author: ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 9:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-pluto-with-a-specified-notebook/108665/2 "2024-01-11T09:42:24Z")

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It’s

```julia
Pluto.run(notebook="my_notebook.jl")

```