octave-cli(1)

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version 11.3.0 · 7 versions
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💖 octave-cli(1) — the group chat edition ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're talking about octave-cli, and she's from the General Commands Manual section of your system — very official, very iconic, very much the vibe.

✨ NAME ✨

octave-cli — a high-level interactive programming language for numerical computations 🧮👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

octave-cli [option]... [FILE]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So. Octave is a high-level interactive scientific programming language. It comes with a powerful mathematics-oriented syntax for solving problems numerically, and it's also got built-in 2-D/3-D plotting and visualization tools, like, it really does the most (affectionately). 🌈

You can also run programs in batch mode to process data with zero interaction — no small talk, just numbers, lowkey main character energy.

Here's the tea though: octave-cli has been compiled without any GUI support (Qt), which makes it smaller than the default octave executable. So the integrated development environment is restricted to the command-line interface (CLI). No windows, no popups, just you and the terminal, as nature intended. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

ngl, this page isn't about to list them all for you. A list of the most useful command-line options for octave-cli is available by running this from the shell:

octave-cli --help

periodt. go ask her directly. 💅

📚 DOCUMENTATION 📚

The primary documentation for Octave is written using Texinfo, the GNU documentation system — and the way that works is it lets the same source files produce both online and printed versions of the manual. efficient queen. 👑

You can read the built-in copy of the Octave documentation by running this from inside octave-cli:

octave:1> doc

The Info files can also be read with a stand-alone program like info or xinfo. HTML, Postscript, or PDF versions of the documentation are installed on many systems as well. And the latest version of the documentation lives at https://docs.octave.org/latest. ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

The Octave project maintains a bug tracker at https://bugs.octave.org.

bestie, before you submit a new item, please read the instructions at https://www.octave.org/bugs.html on how to submit a useful report. we love a helpful bug report. we do not love a vague one. 🙈

🍓 FILES 🍓

Upon startup, Octave looks for four initialization files. Each file may contain any number of valid Octave commands. Four whole glow-ups before you even type anything, obsessed.

  • octave-home/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc — Site-wide initialization file which changes options for all users. And octave-home is the directory where Octave was installed, such as /usr/local.
  • octave-home/share/octave/version/m/startup/octaverc — Site-wide initialization file for Octave version version.
  • ~/.octaverc — User's personal initialization file. this one is yours, cherish her. 💜
  • .octaverc — Project-specific initialization file located in the current directory.

🌐 INTERNET RESOURCES 🌐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

John W. Eaton and many others. 💖 The list of contributors to the Octave project may be shown from within octave-cli by executing "doc Acknowledgements". The list is also available online at https://docs.octave.org/latest/Acknowledgements.html.

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

octave(1), mkoctfile(1), octave-config(1).

iykyk. go read those next, bestie. ✨

GNU Octave 🦋 April 2026 🎀 and yes, this was octave-cli(1) the whole time — thanks for coming to my ted talk, ily, bye 💖💅✨

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