interfacing octave with tcsh

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Nov-2007, Dr. Aaron Herrnstein wrote:

| I am experiencing difficulties when using an octave script to define a shell
| variable via command line substitution (ie, the backquote character) in the
| tcsh and csh shells.  The following example works properly in CentOS, but
| triggers the errors listed below in Fedora and Cygwin.  I would appreciate
| any suggestions you can offer.
| 
| % cat > ./octprint.m << EOF
| #!/usr/bin/octave -q
| fprintf('%d', 5)
| EOF
| %
| % chmod u+x ./octprint.m
| %
| % @ atvar = `./octprint.m`
| @: Expression Syntax.
| %
| % set setvar = `./octprint.m`
| % echo $setvar
| echo: No match.

So precisely what is Octave printing when you run this script?  Have
you tried

  ./octprint.m | od -c

or

  set setvar = `./octprint.m`
  echo "$setvar"

or

  set nonomatch
  set setvar = `./octprint.m`
  echo $setvar

?

Are you using the same version of Octave in each case?

Anyway, this seems more like a shell scripting question than a
question about Octave.

jwe