How can I start octave from the command line and not the GUI?

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akad3b picture akad3b · Jul 26, 2016 · Viewed 48k times · Source

I recently installed GNU Octave on my Mac using Homebrew and as soon as I typed octave into bash, it opened up the octave-gui window. The Octave GUI looks quite unappealing (on a mac, at least) so I wanted to use the command line interface. My fix was to create a permanent alias in ~/.bash_profile which was alias octave='octave --no-gui'.

Is there a more permanent fix to this? That is, how can I start using octave without invoking the GUI instead of the CLI? Is there a solution where I don't have to do this by using an alias. (Not that using the alias is a big issue, but I just wanted a better fix to starting Octave on the command line itself.)

Answer

meeme picture meeme · Oct 20, 2016

I also install through brew I found that just run:

octave-cli

you will see the octave in terminal:

GNU Octave, version 4.2.0-rc2
Copyright (C) 2016 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
    ...
octave:1>

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