Re: octave shebang

[Stefan van der Walt]

Unfortunately, there isn't any easy way around this.  Most UNIX shells
pass the argument "octave -q" as a string to env, instead of splitting
it into two.

The page at

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/

gives an overview of the state of things.

Regards
Stéfan

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:12:12AM -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> I'm looking for an octave shebang which doesn't depend on where octave 
> is installed but instead picks it up from the path.
> 
> This is the best I came up with:
> 
>       #!/bin/sh
>       cat <<EOF | octave -q
> 
> This works even without the final EOF on bash (OS X and Linux) and ksh 
> (IRIX).
> 
> Note that the following works from the command line, but not as #!
> 
>       /usr/bin/env octave -q
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       - Paul
> 



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