Re: Opening Octave through command prompt

[Markus Mützel]

Am 25. April 2020 um 11:40 Uhr schrieb "Adrg01":
> I am a windows user of Octave. I would like to know how to open octave
> through cmd window as that makes it easier to have open octave cli in
> whatever directory I want to without changing it through the octave shell.
> Articles available online mostly have solutions for Linux shell.
>
> I also can't find a particular file for it (as the shortcut to Octave-cli
> calls for two files wscript and octave.vbs), so adding a folder to the PATH
> does not seem to be one of the solutions.

You could probably call "octave.bat" for your use case. For Octave 5.2.0 64bit 
installed at the default location, that file is in
C:\Octave\Octave-5.2.0\mingw64\bin

You might want to add that folder to the %PATH% environment variable.

HTH,
Markus