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startup

startup files

Description

The startup files SCIHOME/.scilab or SCIHOME/scilab.ini are automatically executed (if present) when Scilab is invoked, in addition with the file SCI/etc/scilab.start.

Remarks

Last line of startup file must be terminated by a newline to be taken into account.

Examples

ls(SCIHOME)
if ls(SCIHOME+"/scilab.ini") == [] & ls(SCIHOME+"/.scilab") == []
   disp("No startup file defined");
end

See Also

  • scilab — Main script to start Scilab and miscellaneous tools (GNU/Linux, Unix and Mac OS X)
  • SCIHOME — contains the path to preferences, history files of your Scilab session.
  • SCI — variable containing the value of the root path of Scilab.
  • TMPDIR — temporary directory path.
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