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Re: Trouble with MathKernel

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• Subject: [mg125649] Re: Trouble with MathKernel
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:16:44 -0500 (EST)
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I'm going to assume the setup was the same with Mathematica 7 as for 
Mathematica 8: the kernel executable is hidden inside the Mac package 
/Applications/Mathematica.app.

If you right-click (or Ctrl-click) on that item in Finder, select Show 
Package Contents. In the new Finder window that opens, look at

   Contents/MacOS/MathKernel

That's the executable you actually want. So, for example, if you type in 
a Terminal command line:

   /Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel

then you'll get an interactive command-line session. And if you have a 
file batch.m of legitimate Mathematica expressions, then the following 
_will_ work:

   /Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel <batch.m 
 >batch.out

(assuming your current directory is the location of batch.m, of course).

Now just either add 
/Applications/Mathematica.app/Contents/MacOS/MathKernel to your PATH or 
make an alias for it in the directory where you're working (or some such 
thing).


On 3/24/12 3:01 AM, Cisco Lane wrote:
> I'm running Mathematica Home edition v. 7 on a Mac Intel Core 2 Duo.
>
> I'm trying to run a notebook in the background. I have saved the notebook as a package (batch.m) but, in a terminal, when I type:
>
> MathKernel<  batch.m>  batch.out
>
> the batch.out file says "MathKernel: no such file or directory". Same thing happens if I substitute "math" for "MathKernel".
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

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    • From: Cisco Lane <travlorf@yahoo.com>