Re: input variables form the shell

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2012/3/1 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> On 1 March 2012 10:57, jacopo rocchi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I would liko to do something like this:
>>
>> write this in the shell: >octave -q script.m ARG
>> And then inside script.m i would write something like this: disp(2*ARG);
>>
>> So I would like the script to print to the shell 2 times the argument passed
>> in input.
>
> Yes, see the bottom here:
>
>    
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Command-Line-Options.html
>

Oh and one more thing: you can also turn script.m into this:

    #!/usr/bin/octave -q
    ...
    # other stuff

set its executable bit, then do ./script.m ARG.

- Jordi G. H.