Executing octave from Octave.app (Macintosh)

[Vic Norton]

How to get the octave in Octave.app to execute from terminal:
   $ octave
and to be called by the shebang line
   #!/usr/local/bin/octave.

Put the two-line, shell-script "octave"
   #!/bin/sh
   /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
in /usr/local/bin and make it executable.

I guess this should be obvious, but it wasn't obvious to me. I've  
wasted a lot of time trying to get symbolic links to work.

Regards,

Vic