Re: Using octave from command line

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: tim willaert 
> To: help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2015/6/4, Thu 19:02
> Subject: Using octave from command line
> 
> Hello all,
> My question is pretty basic I think, but I can’t seem to be able to run 
> octave 
> from the command line. I can run the GUI or CLI mode by clicking the shortcut 
> in 
> ‘applications’, and once I’m inside of octave everything seems to work 
> nicely. 
> But now I would need to use an octave script to transform multiple data files 
> and I’m trying to do this in a loop, from a bash script. So I thought I would 
> include a line like ‘octave nameOfOctaveFile_i in that loop, where 
> ’nameOfOctavefile_i’ processes my original i-th datafile into my i-th 
> resultful. 
> But the command line doesnt seem to recognise ‘octave’, so I started trying 
> it 
> without the loop just in a terminal window in all kinds of locations to try 
> invoking octave from command line, but it never seems to work. I’ve searched 
> on 
> lots of guides but there it is always assumed that typing ‘octave’ on the 
> command line should start the program. I’ve tried from my home directory, 
> from 
> the directory usr/local/octave/bin (where all the executables like 
> octave-3.8.0 
> and octave-cli are located), but the result is always ‘octave:command not 
> found’. Can someone tell me what I should do to make the terminal recofgnize 
> this command? I read something about adding to the path variable, but what 
> path 
> should I add exactly to the path variable and how can I do this in a safe 
> way? 
> (I’m using a macbook pro with Yosemite and octave 3.8.0) Thanks very much!


I am not a mac user. But I believe terminal and shell on Mac OS X ar the same 
as those on unix
since Mac OS X is based on bsd unix.

From the terminal,

$ locate octave-cli

will tell you where octave-cli is.

HTH

Tatsuro