These sound like utilities; could use the -U facility? Quoting Eduardo Moguillansky : > For my use cases it would be extremely helpful if csound (the > program, not the language) included things like: > > $ csound --getsystemsamplerate > 48000 > > $ csound --getoutdevices > 0: dac0 (Built-in Output) > 1: dac1 ? > 2: dac2 ? > > (This is the same as "csound -odac999 any.csd")