scilab-cli

NAME

scilab, scilab-cli and scilab-adv-cli - Scilab shell

SYNOPSIS

scilab <arguments>

OPTIONS

A complete list of options is included below.

General options

-args <rest>

Accept all extra arguments and make them available through sciargs

-display <display> (or -d <display>)

Use the given server display (under Xwindow systems)

-e <instruction>

Execute the scilab instruction given in argument (-e and -f arguments are mutually exclusive.)

-f <file>

Execute the scilab script given in argument (-e and -f arguments are mutually exclusive.)

-quit

Force scilab exit after execution of script from -e or -f argument (this flag is ignored if it is not used with -e or -f argument)

-l <lang>

change the language of scilab (default : en_US)

-nocolor

Remove the color in the cli and adv-cli modes

-nw

Enable console mode

-nwni (or -nogui)

Enable terminal mode

Developer Trace arguments

--parse-trace

Display bison state machine evolution

--AST-trace

Display ASCII-art AST to be human readable

--pretty-print

Display pretty-printed code, standard Scilab syntax.

Developer Timer arguments

--AST-timed

Time each AST node

--timed

Time global execution

Developer Debug arguments

--context-dump

Display context status

--exec-verbose

Display command before running it.

-nb

Do not display Scilab loading on start

-noatomsautoload

Do not load ATOMS installed module

--no-exec

Only do Lexing/parsing do not execute instructions

-nouserstartup

Do not execute the user startup files SCIHOME/.scilab or SCIHOME/scilab.ini

-ns

Don’t execute etc/scilab.start (will disable many features - only use if you know what you are doing)

--timeout <delay>

Kill the Scilab process after the given delay

Developer arguments

-debug

Start Scilab under gdb (define the variable SCILAB_GDB_OPT to add custom arguments to gdb)

-debug-kdbg

Start Scilab under kdbg

-profiling

Start Scilab under valgrind (define the variable SCILAB_VALGRIND_OPT to add custom arguments to valgrind and override the existing valgrind arguments)

-profiling-visu

Start Scilab under callgrind (define the variable SCILAB_VALGRIND_OPT to add custom arguments to callgrind and override the existing callgrind arguments)

-disable-exception-catching

Disable Scilab exception catching system.

--parse-file <file>

Only parse the given file argument without execution and exit

--parse-trace

Display bison state machine evolution

--pretty-print

Display pretty-printed code using standard Scilab syntax

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

SCIVERBOSE

Provides debugging information of the startup

JAVA_HOME

Declares which Java Virtual Machine to use

SCI_DISABLE_TK

Disables Tk (but not Tcl) features

SCI_JAVA_ENABLE_HEADLESS

Runs Java Headless VM

SCI_DISABLE_EXCEPTION_CATCHING

Disable the catch by Scilab of exception (segfault, ...)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Julien Puydt for Debian