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Re: writing mathematica script files for the math kernel under linux

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg25121] Re: writing mathematica script files for the math kernel under linux
• From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh at wolfram.com>
• Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 03:14:42 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
• References: <8p9l3p$1v1@smc.vnet.net>
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On 7 Sep 2000, Ryan VanRiper (--) wrote:

> Hello,  I spoke with a tech support person at wolfram and they said
> mathematica supported scripting.  However he didnt know anything more
> then that.
> 
> Im running mathematica 4 on linux..  Is it possible for the "math"
> executable to somehow run a script file that did the following:
> 
> load in a notebook file
> evaluate the notebook
> then export the results to a text file
> 
> I want to automate this process without sitting and typing things from
> the math command line.
> 
> If anyone has some ideas on how to do this please respond.

Try saving the Input cells in a notebook to a Mathematica package file and
then run the kernel in batch mode.  This process is described in greater
detail in this prior posting:

http://library.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/1998/Apr/msg00243.html

-- 
P.J. Hinton
User Interface Programmer                         paulh at wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.
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