NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       scilab <arguments>

OPTIONS

       A complete list of options is included below.

   General options
       -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

   Developer Trace arguments
       --parse-trace
              Display bison state machine evolution

       --AST-trace
              Display ASCII-art AST to be human readable

       --pretty-print
              Display pretty-printed code, standard Scilab syntax.

   Developer Timer arguments
       --AST-timed
              Time each AST node

       --timed
              Time global execution

   Developer Debug arguments
       --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

   Developer arguments
       -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

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       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, ...)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Julien Puydt for Debian

                                          November 2017                             scilab-cli(1)