From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Feb 26 21:27:37 1998
Subject: Re: an octave unix execution question
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: Terrence Brannon <brannon at surf dot usc dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, holt@lnc.usc.edu, poirazi@lnc.usc.edu,         consult@skat.usc.edu
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:26:31 -0500 (EST)


It is much easier to use another feature of Octave. Write a file as the
following (without the indentation I added for readability)

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

and save it as 'my_octave_script.m'. Also do a 'chmod 755 my_octave_script.m'

This assumes that your Octave binary sits in /usr/local/bin/octave. The -q
just suppresses the start-up message. This also assumes that 'start_my_stuff'
is the name of the Octave function the user used to type before backgrounding
Octave via ctrl-z. 

Et voila: you now have an Octave command that you can run just any other Unix
command by saying 'my_octave_script.m'. Including starting it via at(1),
batch(1), cron(8) or whatever mechanism you like. 

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