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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:13:44+00:00

If you have Mathematica code in foo.m, Mathematica can be invoked with -noprompt and

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If you have Mathematica code in foo.m, Mathematica can be invoked with -noprompt and with -initfile foo.m (or -run '<<foo.m') and the command line arguments are available in $CommandLine (with extra junk in there) but is there a way to just have some mathematica code like

#!/usr/bin/env MathKernel x = 2+2; Print[x]; Print['There were ', Length[ARGV], ' args passed in on the command line.']; linesFromStdin = readList[]; etc.

and chmod it executable and run it? In other words, how does one use Mathematica like any other scripting language (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc)?

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  1. MASH — Mathematica Scripting Hack — will do this.

    Since Mathematica version 6, the following perl script suffices:

    http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/mash/mash.pl

    For previous Mathematica versions, a C program is needed:

    http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/mash/pre6

    UPDATE: At long last, Mathematica 8 supports this natively with the ‘-script’ command-line option:

    http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-8/mathematica-shell-scripts/

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