Re: command line question
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- Subject: [mg65888] Re: [mg65874] command line question
- From: "David Annetts" <davidannetts at aapt.net.au>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:33:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Jason,
> Hi, I'm trying to execute Mathematica (5.2 on Windows) from
> the command line via another program, but I'm having a hard
> time finding a way that would just run a command, then exit.
> Can this be done?
> Even if I could just read my argument from a file and write
> it to another would be fine...just as long as it gives the
> result, the exits.
It works ....
Open your favourite editor & type a whole series of commands. Then run
Mathematica using
math < inputFile.m > outputFile.out
For example, if test.m contains the two lines
plt = Plot[x^2, {x, -2, 2}, DisplayFunction->Identity,
ImageSize->512];
Export["test.eps", plt, "EPS"];
Then we can run the file from the command line using
math < test.m > test.out
And produce the files test.out & test.eps which contains the plot we
produced from the command line run.
Regards,
Dave.