Re: How to pass variables from octave script to Ubuntu shell

[Ismael Núñez-Riboni]

Moin Sebastian, why don't you simply write the variable to disk from 
Octave (ascii) and then read it under Python? It seems to me the easiest 
way... Gruss, Ismael.

On 01/30/2012 11:07 AM, Sebastian Döring wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am using a bash script to execute several other scripts including an
> octave script.
> The bash script simply calls the octave script with the following
> command: "octave --silent --eval "myfile(\"$variable\")".
>
> My problem is now, that I want the octave script to return a certain
> variable it has calculated during its execution, back to the shell, so
> that I can use it further and pass it again to another script (e.g. python).
>
> I have searched google a lot about this and have also found a topic from
> this very mailing list (about "setenv"/"getenv"), but I don really seem
> to get it right.
>
> I would really appreciate if someone gave me a hint on how to use these
> commands, or maybe how to solve my problem in another way.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Sebastian
>
>
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