Re: Running octave .m file from windows batch

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Lester Anderson <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

Is there a trick to getting Octave to run a .m file from within a
windows .bat file at the command line?

Tried variations of this, but not working (cli, --no-gui etc)
C:\Octave\octave-4.2.1\bin\octave.exe --eval test_install_421.m

Gives an error on "liboctinterp-4.dll mssing" yet this is in the \bin directory

call the batch file not the executable.  it will pass command line arguments to the executable and make sure all proper path and environment variables are set.

i.e., i created a testfile.m that just contains 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 on separate lines from the command line in the octave-4.2.1 directory:

octave --persist testfile.m

opens the octave gui and executes the file. the --persist option keeps octave open afterwards, otherwise it would only open the --no-gui, run the script, and close. 

for all of the command line options see:

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Command-Line-Options.html