Re: MathKernel -script in MacOSX
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- Subject: [mg116336] Re: MathKernel -script in MacOSX
- From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:16:16 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 10, 9:21 pm, "quen... at nandor.net" <cdani... at nandor.net> wrote: > I am using Mathematica Home Edition 8.0 on Mac OSX. > I am attempting to use 'MathKernel -script file.m' to evaluate a script, > but have been unsuccessful. > > file.m is a text file containing: 2 + 2 > > 'MathKernel -script file.m' fails to produce any output or a failure > message. > > I have tried this under the standard Terminal application as well as X11 > with the same result. On the other hand, > > 'cat file.m | MathKernel -noprompt ' outputs '4' as expected. > > Moreover, 'MathKernel', with no options generates a Mathematica Shell as > expected. > > Not sure what I am missing. > > Thanks, > > Bryan I don't use the terminal directly but call it in applescripts where the following works do shell script "/Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/ MathKernel -run "<</path/to/script file.m"" Mike