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Here is a complete list of all the command line options that Octave accepts.
--debug-d--echo-commands-x--eval code--persist is also
specified.
--exec-path pathOCTAVE_EXEC_PATH found in the environment, but not any commands
in the system or user startup files that set the built-in variable
EXEC_PATH.
--help-h-?--info-file filenameOCTAVE_INFO_FILE found in the environment, but not any commands
in the system or user startup files that set the built-in variable
INFO_FILE.
--info-program programOCTAVE_INFO_PROGRAM found in the environment, but not any
commands in the system or user startup files that set the built-in
variable INFO_PROGRAM.
--interactive-i--no-history-H--no-init-file--no-line-editing--no-site-file--norc-f--no-init-file
and --no-site-file.
--path path-p pathOCTAVE_PATH found in the environment, but not any commands in the
system or user startup files that set the built-in variable LOADPATH.
--persist--eval or reading from a file
named on the command line.
--silent--quiet-q--traditional--braindead PS1 = ">> "
PS2 = ""
beep_on_error = true
crash_dumps_octave_core = false
default_save_options = "-mat-binary"
fixed_point_format = true
page_screen_output = false
print_empty_dimensions = false
warn_function_name_clash = false
--verbose-V--version-v--persist is also specified.
Octave also includes several built-in variables that contain information about the command line, including the number of arguments and all of the options.
Return the command line arguments passed to Octave. For example, if you invoked Octave using the command
octave --no-line-editing --silent
argvwould return a cell array of strings with the elements--no-line-editingand--silent.If you write an executable Octave script,
argvwill return the list of arguments passed to the script. See Executable Octave Programs, for an example of how to create an executable Octave script.
Return the name that was typed at the shell prompt to run Octave.
If executing a script from the command line (e.g.,
octave foo.m) or using an executable Octave script, the program name is set to the name of the script. See Executable Octave Programs, for an example of how to create an executable Octave script.See also: program_name.
Here is an example of using these variables to reproduce Octave's command line.
printf ("%s", program_name);
for i = 1:nargin
printf (" %s", nth (argv, i));
endfor
printf ("\n");
See Index Expressions, for an explanation of how to properly index
arrays of strings and substrings in Octave, and See Defining Functions,
for information about the variable nargin.