Here is a complete list of the command line options that Octave accepts.
--debug-d--doc-cache-file filenamedoc_cache_file
function.
--echo-commands-x--eval code--exec-path path--force-gui--help-h-?--image-path path--info-file filenameinfo_file
function.
--info-program programinfo_program function.
--interactive-i--jit-debug--line-editing--no-gui--no-history-H--no-init-file--no-init-path--no-jit-compiler--no-line-editing--no-site-file--no-window-system--norc-f--path path-p path--persist--silent--quiet-q--texi-macros-file filename--traditional--braindead PS1 = ">> "
PS2 = ""
allow_noninteger_range_as_index = true
beep_on_error = true
confirm_recursive_rmdir = false
crash_dumps_octave_core = false
default_save_options = "-mat-binary"
do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation = true
fixed_point_format = true
history_timestamp_format_string = "%%-- %D %I:%M %p --%%"
page_screen_output = false
print_empty_dimensions = false
and disable the following warnings
Octave:abbreviated-property-match
Octave:fopen-file-in-path
Octave:function-name-clash
Octave:load-file-in-path
Note that this does not enable the Octave:matlab-incompatible
warning, which you might want if you want to be told about writing code
that works in Octave but not Matlab (see doc-warning,
see doc-warning_ids).
--verbose-V--version-vOctave also includes several functions which return 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-editing and --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 last component of the value returned by
program_invocation_name.See also: program_invocation_name.
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 functions to reproduce the command line which invoked Octave.
printf ("%s", program_name ());
arg_list = argv ();
for i = 1:nargin
printf (" %s", arg_list{i});
endfor
printf ("\n");
See Indexing Cell Arrays, for an explanation of how to retrieve objects
from cell arrays, and Defining Functions, for information about the
variable nargin.