Help: newbie trying to svd

[Philip Rennert]

I'm a total octave newbie.  I want to svd a large matrix, and I don't
want to type it all in.
The doc says I can write a script file which will be treated like a
sequence of typed commands, but I haven't gotten this to work:  any
examples?
I did get it to read a file by wrapping a no-argument function around my
commands (yes, a kludge), and it did svd a 3x3 matrix, but when I try
the big one, it says:
sh: less: command not found.  Huh?
I tried:
[u,s,v]=svd(
[1,3,2
2,9,4
4,7,4])
and got an answer, but not for a big matrix, and also not when I tried
A=[1,3,2
2,9,4
4,7,4])
[u,s,v]=svd(A)
so it's like it's not reading variables

How do you write your script files, and is this how it throws up for a
too-large matrix?
Please respond also by email to address@hidden  TIA.



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