Re: Newbie problem running *.m files on Octave 3.4.2 on Snow Leopard

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:40 PM, John Helly wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I've put /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/MacOS in my path and aliased 
> octave='Octave' and I can start 'octave' from the Terminal command-line but 
> whether I give it a *.m filename or not it always opens up an interactive 
> session.  I expect that if I give it a *.m filename it should run the file 
> and return to the command-line.  Can anyone suggest why this is not working?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers.
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> John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer 
> Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / 760 840 8660 mobile / 
> stonesteps7 (Skype) / stonesteps7 (iChat) / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj

>From the thread it looks to me like you've found the problem, but just in case 
>....

$ echo "disp ('Hello World')" > fubar.m
$ /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave -q fubar.m
Hello World

Ben