call octave from shell script (with inputfile)

[Michael Bock]

---  sorry for cross posting (it's my first one...)  ---

Hello everybody,

I'm quite new to Octave and the list and I have a problem calling octave
from a shell script. I have a octave script which is running properly when
run from octave's prompt. I also can call an octave "Hello world" script
from a shell script. However I cannot call a octave script and giving it an
inputfile from the shell. I tried several quotings like this one:

in a shell:

% octave -qf octavescript.m('inputfile.dat')

in the example inputfile.dat is a textfile with the data I want to process.
I also tried with double quotes " and without quotes...

the error is:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

I'm doing this on ubuntu 7.10 with octave 2.9.12

Any useful hints are very much appreciated!!

Michael 
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