Creating a CvP jic file with a script

Quartus doesn't have the best documentation.

This post is old but I will post this answer for anyone like me who was looking for answers for this:

One method is using the .cof as one of the contributors mentioned.

However to truly do command line with flexibility of FPGA device and Target memory device, you may wanna do :

quartus_cpf -c --cvp <quartus_cpf_options> <source.sof file> <source.jic file>

quartus_cpf_options can be any other settings you wanna pass such as -d, -s, -m, --option etc

I have found that --help for any quartus tool is a much better friend than Quartus documentation

I stumbled upon --cvp option by looking into quartus_cpf --help as well.

Good luck.