From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 26 06:39:24 2005
Subject: Some utility scripts
From: Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti dot cnr dot it>
To: Octave users list <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:40:54 +0100

===File /usr/local/bin/compute==============================
#! /usr/bin/octave -qf

disp(eval(argv{1}))
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===File /usr/local/bin/apply================================
#! /usr/bin/octave -qf

disp(eval([argv{1} "(load('" argv{2} "'))"]))
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pot at pot:~/vbrsr$ cat /tmp/aa
5
6
7

pot at pot:~/vbrsr$ apply mean /tmp/aa
6

pot at pot:~/vbrsr$ apply std /tmp/aa
1

pot at pot:~/vbrsr$ apply sqrt /tmp/aa
  2.2361
  2.4495
  2.6458

pot at pot:~/vbrsr$ compute "sqrt(2)"
1.4142

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