Re: Run script/function at regular intervals

[Arnaud Miege]

On 1 May 2013 10:55, Andy Buckle <address@hidden> wrote:

On 1 May 2013 10:45, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

It's been more than 10 years since I used a windows machine last time,

so I'm not really sure I can help much  here.
If you can't make executable scripts on windows, you may probably work
around the issue by scheduling a task as

octave --eval 'source D:path\to\script\your_script_name.m'

or if your script is somewhere in Octave's default loadpath, simply

octave --eval 'your_script_name'

this way the executable to run is octave itself, while the script is passed as
a command line option.

HTH,
c.

Execute a command like c. said.

Finding scheduled tasks is different in XP and Vista/7. (I have not used 8).

There is also a DOS interface: type the following in a DOS prompt to learn more

schtasks /?

--
/* andy buckle */

Thank you both. I have tried this but here is the error message I get in a DOS command window when I try:

C:\Documents and Settings\ajpm>D:\Octave-3.6.4\Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2\bin\octave.e

xe --eval 'source L:\MatlabModels\ambr250\Royston_weather.m'

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warning: gmsh does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled

warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled

warning: function D:\Octave-3.6.4\Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2\share\octave\packages\sta

tistics-1.2.0\fstat.m shadows a core library function

error: unterminated string constant

parse error:

>>> 'source

I have also tried without the "source" argument, just passing the path to the script in single quotes, and although that does not produce any error, it doesn't seem to do anything either.

Arnaud