General Commands Manual

NAME¶

scilab, scilab-cli and scilab-adv-cli - Scilab shell

SYNOPSIS¶

scilab <arguments>

A complete list of options is included below.

-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

--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

-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

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, ...)

This manual page was written by Julien Puydt for Debian

November 2017