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

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg25105] Re: writing mathematica script files for the math kernel under linux
• From: Albert Retey <albert.retey at visualanalysis.com>
• Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 03:14:29 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Visual Analysis
• References: <8p9l3p$1v1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

"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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan

Depends on what you want to do, if you don´t use any of the Frontend
functions 
you can try the following very simple procedure. Convert your Notebook
to a *.m file by making all cells to initialization cells and save as
special -> package format) and then run

math < YourNotebook.nb.m > results

You might need to work on the output though...


Albert Retey

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