Re: How to run Octave in a shell on MacOS Lion?

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 15.10.2011, at 18:41, Mel Bardman wrote:

> I installed Octave from the binary Octave.app for Mac OS X, version 3.4.0, 
> from octave.sourceforge.net, on Lion.
> 
> How can I run Octave directly from a shell, so that Octave terminal I/O goes 
> to that shell? Specifically, I want to run Octave from within an Aquamacs 
> shell buffer.

Copied from an earlier post on this list:

> Here's how I handle this situation, Daryl.
> 
>  1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
>  2. In Terminal do
>      $ cd /usr/local/bin
>      $ sudo ln -s /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
> 
> Now you can use the standard shebang line
>  #!/usr/local/bin/octave -qf
> to run an Octave script.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vic
> 
> 
> On Jun 29, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Daryl Lee wrote:
> 
> I'm plowing my way through the newly released "GNU Octave for Beginners" 
> book, and I have run into a question that I think this group should be able 
> to answer.  I got to Chapter 4 and the section telling "GNU/Linux and MacOS X 
> users" how to add the shebang line to their script so it can be executed from 
> the bash shell.
> 
> In Mac OSX, from the shell I type ($ is shell prompt)
> 
> $ /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
> 
> and get an Octave environment, as expected.  But when I write a script with 
> this as the first line:
> 
> #! /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave -qf
> 
> set the permissions, and execute the script, I get a bash syntax error on the 
> first line of Octave script following the shebang line.  I've tried it with 
> and without the -qf.  It works as advertised on Linux, so I'm sure it's a Mac 
> OSX issue.
> 
> What would be an effective way to launch Octave scripts from the Mac OS X 
> terminal command line?
> 
> -- 
> Daryl Lee

After step 2, you can run octave from the shell simply by typing "octave"

Hope this helps
Lukas