How to run ".nb" file always in dos command line

[wch]

Hi,everybody,I have met an problem when run mathematica in DOS
interface. I will tell you this confuse:
in "1.nb" file, I have written a sentence: Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 6 Pi}],
then I run 1.nb in DOS command line with "> 1.nb", it will be opened
in a moment.
now I want to evaluate "1.nb" in DOS in order to generate the figure
of Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 6 Pi}]. but I don't know how to send order to
mathematica.
In a word, I want to execute all process in DOS command not under
notebook interface through "shift + enter". combination.
Thank you for all the information in advance,I am wating for your
coming.

[Patrick Scheibe]

Hi,

please go to Help->DocumentationCenter and paste

tutorial/MathematicaScripts

into the search line. You'll see that a file test.m containing this:

#!/usr/local/bin/MathematicaScript -script
Export["./test.png",Plot[Sin[x] ,{x, 0, 6 Pi}]];

will do what you want, when you set the file executable and call it like
a normal shell script with "./test.m" or you call

MathematicaScript -script test.m

If you are not on Linux, then you may have to adjust your paths, etc.

Cheers
Patrick

[Chris Degnen]

Hi,

You can evaluate your notebook from the command line with a
procedure such as this.

Assuming your working directory is C:\temp\plot demo

create a text file C:\temp\plot demo\runplot.m containing this:


Needs["JLink`"];
$FrontEndLaunchCommand = "Mathematica.exe";
UseFrontEnd[
selected = Select[Notebooks[],
CurrentValue[#, NotebookFileName] === "1.nb" &];
If[selected != {},
targetnotebook = First@selected;
SelectionMove[targetnotebook, All, Notebook];
SelectionEvaluate[targetnotebook];
];
Exit[]];


Now to open your file from the command line. I first put
Mathematica on the search path, just for the session (using
setlocal). So, at the command line type or paste:

setlocal
PATH = C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\8.0\;%PATH%
mathematica "C:\temp\plot demo\1.nb"

(Your DOS command "> 1.nb" did not work for me, so I used
mathematica "C:\temp\plot demo\1.nb")

Now you can evaluate the notebook with this command:

start MathKernel -noprompt -initfile "C:\temp\plot demo\runplot.m"



In case this is of interest, here are some references where
I have discussed similar applications on StackOverflow:-

Evaluating a notebook from the command line
http://tinyurl.com/evalnotebook

About kernel warning message from UseFrontEnd
http://tinyurl.com/uncaughtthrow

Starting and restarting kernels
http://tinyurl.com/restartkernel

[A Retey]

Hi,

> You can evaluate your notebook from the command line with a
> procedure such as this.
>
> Assuming your working directory is C:\temp\plot demo
>
> create a text file C:\temp\plot demo\runplot.m containing this:
>
>
> Needs["JLink`"];
> $FrontEndLaunchCommand = "Mathematica.exe";
> UseFrontEnd[
> selected = Select[Notebooks[],
> CurrentValue[#, NotebookFileName] === "1.nb"&];
> If[selected != {},
> targetnotebook = First@selected;
> SelectionMove[targetnotebook, All, Notebook];
> SelectionEvaluate[targetnotebook];
> ];
> Exit[]];

While I think the above should work, for version 8 it probably can be
achieved somewhat simpler with something along these lines:

UsingFrontEnd[
NotebookEvaluate[NotebookOpen["full/path/to/file.nb"]]
]

UsingFrontEnd was new in version 7 and seems to replace UseFrontEnd from
the JLink-Package without the need to explicitly load a package and
NotebookEvaluate is new in version 8 and has some additional options
with which one can control the details of the evaluation. See the
documentation for the three functions for more information...


hth,

albert