Re: octave shebang

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Stefan van der Walt 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.

I assume this is for portability reasons.  It might be good to use an 
install script.  One way would be to make scripts without a first line, 
then have something like this generate the initial line for every script:

echo "#\!`which octave` -q"

Or, you might use perl or sed to change the first line if it doesn't match 
the path to Octave.

If you can assume that the user has root permissions, you can write the 
scripts to point to /usr/local/bin/octave, say, and if octave is actually 
installed elsewhere, write a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin:

ln -s `which octave` /usr/local/bin/octave

I think that would create the correct link.

Mike



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