Re: Octave advocacy

[David Bateman]

Why not include the line

#! /usr/local/bin/octave -q

as the first line of your script and then the script itself is execeutable

D.

According to Mike Miller <address@hidden> (on 09/17/04):
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, John B. Thoo wrote:
> 
> >On Sep 16, 2004, at 10:16 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> >>I'll tell you one thing.  I can do things like this in Octave...
> >>
> >>echo 'sqrt(29)' | octave -q
> >
> >That's cool!  I didn't know about that.  Neat.  Thanks.
> 
> 
> Of course, I'm working in a unix environment.  The truth is, I use a 
> little script like this:
> 
> -------begin script on next line---------
> #!/usr/local/bin/tcsh -f
> 
> echo "$1" | /usr/local/bin/octave -q
> -------end script on previous line---------
> 
> I call the script "compute" and I put it in my path.  You might have to 
> change the paths in the script, and you have to chmod to make it 
> executable.
> 
> Once you have the script installed, instead of this....
> 
> echo 'sqrt(29)' | octave -q
> 
> ...you can do this...
> 
> compute 'sqrt(29)'
> 
> ...which is a little easier.  I think every unix system should have 
> something like this for quick command line computations.  It's very handy. 
> Of course, it can do a *lot* - loading data files and analyzing them using 
> matrix operations, for example.
> 
> I like to call octave from scripts when I need random numbers quickly. 
> Programs like gawk always give the same random numbers every time, but 
> Octave uses the system clock to generate a seed.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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