Re: input variables form the shell

[c.]

On 2 Mar 2012, at 01:24, jacopo rocchi wrote:

> Hi thanks to everybody for the help. I haven't understood yet how to solve
> the problem and maybe I haven't been so clear.
> 
> Suppose I have a scritp, oct.m, that needs an input variable to work. My
> question is 
> 1) how to pass the variable from the shell;
> 2) how to read the variable in the script.
> 
> For example in a normal bash script, scritp.sh, to pass two variables to the
> scripts, I would do:
> ./script 3.5  7
> and in the script I write
> 
> variable1=$1
> variable2=$2
> 
> In such a way variable1 takes the value 3.5 and variable2 takes the value 7.
> 
> I've tried to use all the suggestions you gave me but I've haven's been able
> to resolve the problem, I always get an error message from octave.
> Ciao. 

if you can send the examples you tried we might be able to help you fix them
ciao,
c.