Time for action - making your first script

1. 1. Start the Octave interactive environment and open the editor:

octave:1> edit

1. 2. Write the following commands in the editor, but leave out the hash marks (#) and the code line numbers to the right. They are used only for reference:

   Code Listing 4.1
   A = rand(3,5); #1
   #2
   min(min(A)) #3
   

   Downloading the example code

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1. 3. Save the file as script41.m (notice the extension .m) under the current directory or anywhere in the Octave search path directory.

2. 4. Now executing the commands in the script file is done by simply typing:

octave:2> script41
ans = 0.1201

What just happened?

In Command 1, we opened the editor and we then wrote two Octave commands. When we ask Octave to execute the text...