Re: Octave Startup Question

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:37 AM, tallankybstrd <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I searched the forums and could not find an answer to my question, so I'm
> very
> sorry if it has already been answered.  I was wondering whether a certain
> functionality was possible in octave. Essentially, I would like to create a
> command line option that alters what path(s) octave adds on startup. Here is
> ultimately what I am trying to accomplish. I would like a call similar to
> this:
>
>  $> octave --math246
>
> to begin octave with the octave command similar to this:
>
>  octave$> addpath('/home/math246/mfiles')
>
> Is something like this possible/plausible?
>
> I would imagine it has something to do with the file octaverc, but I do not
> know how I could add some command line option statements. Any help
> would be appreciated.

I'm not sure I understand precisely what you want to do.
The command
octave --eval "<some code>" --persist
makes Octave evaluate <some code>, then become interactive.
You can instruct Octave to skip initial files using `--norc' or
`--no-init-file'.


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