Mathematica command line
If you wish to have both the output results and the input commands in that file, you need to add at the beginning of the file ' mycommands.m' the following (you can do this by using a text editor like Vim or Emacs), By using the Mathematica kernel alone, you can then run this file as a background job:Ī ' myresults.out' file will be created containing all the output from the computations.
Supose you save it with the name ' mycommands.m'. Then a dialog box appears for specifying the file name and the location of the mathematica input file. To generate the batch-file, follow the direction by clicking on File > Save As Special.
Select the cells from the Mathematica Notebook, and then follow the direction by clicking on Cell > Cell Properties >Initialization Cell from the menu bar to initialize the cells.For this purpose, you must do the following: In order to run a Mathematica program in background, first you need to create a batch-file which is a text file that contains all the input commands that are written in different cells of a Mathematica Notebook. (* outputs: file1.pdf file2.pdf etc.Running Mathematica Batch-files in the Background (* Convert Mathematica notebooks to PDFs *) #!/usr/local/bin/MathematicaScript -script Save the following code as nb2pdf, make it executable and place it the directory with the files you want to convert or somewhere in your path. Here's a solution in the form of a Mathematica script - it can easily be turned into a Notebook or package file. This means that you could either make a notebook to do the conversion or call the frontend from the command line.
To print or convert it, you first need to open it andĪ naive attempt to open a notebook from the Mathematica command line yields the error FrontEndObject::notavail In:= NotebookOpenĪ front end is not available certain operations require a front end. Basically, there is no way to convert Mathematica notebooks into PDFs without invoking the frontend.