Re: retaining interpreter when running script from command line

[Andy Adler]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, John W. Eaton wrote:
> It would not be hard to add an option like
>
>   octave --eval "arbitrary-code"
>
> but if we do this, do we also need --funcall?

I would really like a '--eval' option (or just -e). This
would allow me to replace the many scripts where I use

   FOUR=`echo 2+2 | octave -qf`

We may not need --funcall, but I propose we leave it there,
since it may be useful, and isn't in the way or anything.

--
Andy




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