Re: use of #!/usr/bin/env octave with optargs ?

[Michael Creel]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:04 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Eric Chassande-Mottin <address@hidden>:
>> I'd like to run a script with the following shebang line
>> #!/usr/bin/env octave -q
>>
>> but I get an error
>> /usr/bin/env: octave -q: No such file or directory
>>
>> an old thread says there are no solution
>> http://www.nabble.com/octave-shebang-td394305.html#a394305
>>
>> just wondering if this is still the case.
>
> I don't think a solution has been presented, and apparently it isn't
> trivial to produce one (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)#Portability). Perhaps
> octave should ship a simple program 'octave-q' that acts just like
> 'octave' when called with the '-q' argument?
>
> Søren
>
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Hmm, on the current Kubuntu, the following works for me:

1) create a script "octave" in ~/bin/octave that contains

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/octave -q

2) make it executable, and make sure that ~/bin/ is before
/usr/local/bin in $PATH

Good enough for government work, no?

M.