Re: octave script HELP

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 06/11/15 08:43, yasmin wrote:
> i still have a problem , i am passing an argument to the octave script but
> not to a function it`'s just a number that identifies which file i am going
> to plot, i want to pass this number to the octave sript then in the octave
> script e able to read and plot a certain file
> M = dlmread('/dev/shm/waitingTime' NUMBER '.txt');
>
> for example in this line i get error when i tried using $1 in the NUMBER
> place ..so what should i do ?

It appears you are confusing bash and octave.

Your script.sh is interpreted by bash and so should only contain bash 
commands.

dlmread is an octave function and so does not make sense to bash.

I suggest you make a test file, say, xx.m
That contains

disp("Args:");
argv()

and, try

octave --no-gui xx.m

If you must have a bash script, create a file

#! /bin/bash
octave --no-gui xx.m $@

Tom Dean