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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
