Re: Octave advocacy

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, David Bateman wrote:

> Why not include the line
>
> #! /usr/local/bin/octave -q
>
> as the first line of your script and then the script itself is 
> execeutable


I'm not sure that I understand your point.  The script I wrote (below) 
will run arbitrary octave commands straight from the command line.  If the 
script began with the line you suggest, would it run arbitrary code 
entered on the command line, or would it only run whatever code I typed on 
subsequent lines within the script?

Maybe your approach will be better than mine, but we need a way to write 
your script such that it will read arguments from the command line and 
execute them as octave commands.  Maybe something like 'eval' could be 
used, but I'm not sure it would be better than what I have.

Best,

Mike



> According to Mike Miller <address@hidden> (on 09/17/04):
> > -------begin script on next line---------
> > #!/usr/local/bin/tcsh -f
> >
> > echo "$1" | /usr/local/bin/octave -q
> > -------end script on previous line---------
> >
> > I call the script "compute" and I put it in my path.  You might have to
> > change the paths in the script, and you have to chmod to make it
> > executable.
> >
> > Once you have the script installed, instead of this....
> >
> > echo 'sqrt(29)' | octave -q
> >
> > ...you can do this...
> >
> > compute 'sqrt(29)'



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