Re: Windows script

[Christoph Dalitz]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:54:57 +0000
address@hidden wrote:
>
> I'm running Gnu Octave on a Windows XP, I wrote an Octave script that works
> great if I execute it inside the Gnu Octave environment.
> Now I need to execute this script from an external perl script, and get
> the result back in the Perl script to work on it. How can I execute Octave
> script from an external Perl script?
>
Give the path/file name of your script as a command line parameter to
the octave interpreter. E.g. from the Cygwin shell

        echo "disp('Hallo');" > t.m
        octave -q t.m

The same works from a perl script, eg. with the backquote operator.

Christoph



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