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title: Trigger Standalone Bots via Command lines
description: "# Download RTILA Bot Launcher RTILA Studio is the software to design and test-run your automations and then compile them into Standalone executable software. And we have recently release an additional piece of software to ease the way to run…"
url: "https://legacy.rtila.com/docs/trigger-standalone-bots-via-command-lines/"
updated: "2023-12-14"
category: "How-To & Tutorials"
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# Trigger Standalone Bots via Command lines

# Download RTILA Bot Launcher

RTILA Studio is the software to design and test-run your automations and then compile them into Standalone executable software. And we have recently release an additional piece of software to ease the way to run and execute Standalone, it is called the Bot Launcher and it can be downloaded from here: [https://github.com/IKAJIAN/rtila-bot-launcher](https://github.com/IKAJIAN/rtila-bot-launcher)

# Create Argument Variables

Before you can pass variables data to your Standalone bot you need to first create Argument variables which are the type of variables that are accessible to external systems and APIs, refer to the Cloud API documentation on how to create Argument variables: See here

# Launch Bots via command lines

Once you have installed the Bot Launcher you can use the following command lines to trigger the bot and pass variable to it before it executes

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```shell
Bot-Launcher.exe --config-file=automation1.bot --myvar=testdata
or
Bot-Launcher.exe --bot-file=automation1.bot --myvar=testdata
```