I'm still learning about inkscape and what it can do and was wondering if it would be possible to launch inkscape from the command line and specify an extension to run once its open. Specifically, I want to open an SVG and run the extension "Export->Plot". If I could close inkscape after doing so it would be even better. I know this is a really random and specific thing I'm trying to do, but I was curious if Inkscape had this kind of feature built into it by default or if there was a way I could programatically walk through the various steps I'm talking about (and if someone could just point me in the right direction )

Thanks!

Yes, that's possible.

See https://inkscape.org/doc/inkscape-man.html, explicitly the example with the verb:

inkscape dateiname.svg --verb=EditDuplicate --verb=FileClose

For the verb, use the 'noprefs' version of the one for the extension.

That worked like a charm, thanks!