MATLAB Octave CLI

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Prompt

PS1('>> ')

In-Line Operations

1 + 2
2 - 1
1 * 2
2 / 1
2 ^ 6 

Logical operations

Equality:

1 == 2

Non-equality:

1 ~= 2

Logical AND:

1 && 0

Logical OR:

1 || 0

Variable Assignment

<variable-name> = <variable-value>

Also see:

Variables

Printing

To print the value of the variable, simply type the name of the variable:

<variable-name>

disp()

disp(<variable-name>)

printf

printf
fprintf
sprintf

Also see:

Generic printf

cd

Modify the current directory.

pwd

Print working directory.

clear

Delete the names matching the pattern from the symbol table. The pattern is a simplified regular expression, with '?', '*', '[...]'. With no arguments, all user-define variables (local and global) are deleted.

close

Close figure windows.

clc

Clears the terminal screen and move the cursor to the upper left corner.

fprintf

Like printf, just that the output is written to the FID stream instead of stdout.

load

Load the named variables from the file. If no variables are named, all variables found in the file will be loaded.