RE: PowerShell Commands Not Working

[Richard Obregon]

Sorry for the delay in response. Thank you for that information! I did not realize it was a .bat. Thank you! I will look into refining the command, I appreciate it!

 

Respectfully,

Ricky Obregon

 

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From: Kai Torben Ohlhus
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:09 PM
To: Richard Obregon; address@hidden
Subject: Re: PowerShell Commands Not Working

 

On 10/25/19 3:33 AM, Richard Obregon wrote:

> Hello,

>

>  

>

> I have been using PowerShell for some time and would like to make my

> life easier by using Octave as a simple line command to initiate the

> protocol for Octave. I have tried using “octave” as a one-line command

> (similar to python) but it is giving me an error. I have added the

> entire directory for octave in the PATH. Is there something I have

> missed for what I need to do or what is the name of the .exe for the

> 5.1.0 release? Because my understanding is that the PATH needs to

> include the directory for the .exe and just typing “octave” should open

> octave.exe. Is there a different name for this release?

>

>  

>

> Thanks,

>

> Ricky Obregon

>

The better way to go is to call

 

   C:\Octave\Octave-5.1.0.0\mingw64\bin\octave.bat

 

which setups some necessary paths in cmd.exe and PowerShell and define

some alias for it.  Then you can pass commands to Octave by adding for

example:

 

   --eval "format long; sin (pi/2) + 4"

 

and get the output to the respective MS Windows shell.  But some small

experiments showed that PowerShell does not properly pass the --eval

input to Octave and causes errors, which I have no clue how to

fix/properly escape them at the moment.

 

   --eval "sin(pi)"

 

If you have a satisfying solution accepting arbitrary input, please

share it with us =)

 

HTH,

Kai