Re: shell script location

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 8 January 2013 11:09, Richard Crozier <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm trying out running an octave script as an executeable program
> (http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/textbooks/octave/octave_3.html#SEC39)
>
> is there any way for octave running this way to get the location of
> the running script? I want it to be able to locate other function
> files from the script location (actually I just want to cd to the
> script location, knowing the other function files are located there
> too), but mfilename() returns an empty string. I'm guession this is
> because this is not actually treated as a script file, but as a
> series of commands to the interpreter.

WFM, what OS are you using and what Octave version?

    address@hidden:~$ ./lol.m
    ans = lol
    ans = /home/jordi/lol
    ans = /home/jordi/lol.m

    address@hidden:~$ cat lol.m
    #!/usr/local/bin/octave -q
    mfilename
    mfilename fullpath
    mfilename fullpathext

- Jordi G. H.