gretl(1)

✨ NAME ✨

gretl — the GNU Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library 🫶 (it lives in section 1 of the manual, which is the econometrics corner of the manpage universe 💖)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gretl [ options ] [ datafile | scriptfile | sessionfile ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so bestie, listen: gretl is an econometrics package, and the whole thing is built around a shared library 🔥. You can get at that library two ways — through a command-line client program called gretlcli, or through a graphical user interface called gretl_x11 ✨.

And here's the cute part: the program gretl itself is just a little wrapper script 🎀. It peeks at the DISPLAY environment variable, and:

• if DISPLAY is set → it calls the GUI 🌈
• otherwise → it calls the command-line client 💀 (no screen, no problem, she adapts)

For details, please start up either the GUI or the command-line client and consult the online help, or read the printed manual — it's available in PDF format via the gretl website, http://gretl.sourceforge.net 📖💖.

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

These are the options supported by the gretl_x11 program; gretlcli is a little different 👀 (not in a bad way, she's just built different).

• -r script, --run script — Open a script. 📜
• -c, --dump — Dump the configuration file. 🗂️
• -d database, --db database — Open a local database. 🏠
• -e, --english — Force use of English. 🇬🇧 (no cap, she'll speak it)
• -r script, --run script — Open a script. 📜 (yes bestie, she's listed again — the original says it twice, so we keep it twice, periodt 💅)
• -w database, --webdb database — Open a remote database. 🌐
• -h, --help — Give help information and exit. 🫶
• -v, --version — Give version information and exit. 👑

🎀 FILES 🎀

• ~/.gretl2rc — per-user configuration file ⚙️
• ~/.gretl — directory for user runtime files 🗄️

🦋 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🦋

• HOME — Specifies the user's home directory 🏡
• DISPLAY — Specifies the X window display to use 🖥️✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• gretlcli(1) — her command-line bestie, go say hi 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The gretl team 💖

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 and for the cute sign-off: this was version 1.9.5, brought to you by The gretl team, and the manual name at the top was gretl(1) 🧚 mwah, go run some regressions ✨