Questions tagged [scripting]
For questions about Wolfram Language Scripts (formerly known as Mathematica Script), or running the kernel without direct user interaction.
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Logarithmic steps inside a Do
I have trouble, i need to do several computations inside a loop using values in a logaritmic scale, is this possible?
Inside of the cicle i create a several data sctructures, and it currently works ...
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Mathematica Assist. $yx=qxy$
In Mathematica program, How to define a product of two elements $x$ and $y$ such that $$yx=qxy$$ with $q$ is a number commuting with both $x$ and $y$.
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TexForm Simplifies Equation but Holdform Doesn't Work
I have several functions , g1 through gn, that I want to export the LaTeX for. For each iteration of the loop, the function is named gg[x,t]. I want to export the ...
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Handling large data generated by a script file (using parallelization in Mathematica)
I want to write a script file Script_file.m which I am going to run on a server and collect all the data in a file named ...
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Make different Mathematica notebooks stop talking to each other [duplicate]
So basically I am working in two completely different notebooks. But, if I define something in one notebook, it will overwrite the same definition in my other document.
Somehow these files talk to ...
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Stop a script. Just stop it
How can I stop a mathematica script?
Abort[] does not stop the script, just jump over a number of lines and proceed with next lines of calculations.
Also, killing ...
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MathKernel vs wolframscript and passing parameters from the command line
I have a script that works perfectly well when invoked with MathKernel -script. However I would like to pass it arguments. I can do this using ...
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Running a Mathematica script passing parameters from within another Mathematica file
What is the recommended way to run a Mathematica file file_loaded.m from another Mathematica file main_file.m passing an ...
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Help with script for running AceGen generated routine in ABAQUS
I am using the below configuration to run a AceGen-generated viscoelastic element in Abaqus.
Abaqus version: ABAQUS 6.14-6,
OS: Windows 10,
Visual studio: 2013,
Fortan compiler: Intel Fortran compiler ...
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How to determine the file type of a .m file?
Both Mathematica and MATLAB widely uses .m files, but with diametrically different syntaxes and usage. Currently WRI is moving towards the ...
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How to create a CLI for Wolfram language scripts?
Former question: How to use wolframscript to develop flexible command-line tools?
I am currently changing a notebook into a wolframscript for a "production" environment,
where I plan to ...
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Import all files in folder, perform operation, re-export with appended file name
I'm trying to write a short program that does the following over and over again.
Import all files in a folder
Automatically generate names for the imported files based on source file name.
Perform a ...
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why does wolframscript start an instance of Mathematica frontend?
The following wls file surprisingly creates an instance of Mathematica (v12.1) on OS X 10.15.7:
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Wolfram script produces no output
I use Mathematica to create a series of PNG images in a for loop. I want to execute the notebook from the command line in macOS. I exported it as a wolframscript -- see below -- but nothing happens ...
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Copying Weights using NetTrain in Mathematica
I would like to implement the PPO algorithm - Reinforcement Learning - in Mathematica. And for that, I need to be able to copy network weights from say subnetwork NN1 to subnetwork NN2 as an update ...
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Reading specific data from files
I have a huge number of identically formatted .txt files. I would like to read some numbers at a specific position within the text file (row x, column y..) and put them in another file, then repeat ...
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Problem in redirecting output from wolframscript
I am having a very strange problem in scripting with wolframscript.
As a MWE I have a .wls which prints its command line argument. I launch several of these scripts with a bash script, each ...
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Better method for computing streamlines
Can someone suggest a better way to solve for streamlines?
P.S. StreamPlot is not providing accurate results.
Here, velocity is...
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Initializing section header doesn't mark sub cells as initialization cell
I have some definitions organised into Chapter>Section>subsections etc in a notebook. I wish to run this code in wolframscript so I tried (following advise from various question on SE) exporting ...
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How to change the RandomReals each iteration
I am intending to use NestWhile in finding a solution with random real values as parameter.
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numpad not working in wolframscript
I am not sure if this question is suitable here, if so please migrate or guide.
I just installed wolframscript.exe via a WolframEngine installation. After launching ...
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WolframKernel not found when running WolframScript
While attempting to run wolframscript in linux, I get the error
"WolframKernel not found. Use -configure to set WOLFRAMSCRIPT_KERNELPATH Or export WolframKernel=/yourpath/WolframKernel"
I am ...
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WolframKernelException: Failed to communicate with kernel
I am an absolute beginner of Mathematica!! ..
I have downloaded, installed and activated the wolfram engine (12.1) on Windows. I have installed the WolframClient and kernal location is in kernelLoc = '...
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Polar Bubble Chart
I would like to create a plot similar to that in the figure 1. I tried using both ListPolarPlot and BubbleChart, but they do not have the right option for creating a polar bubble chart. Any suggestion?...
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Rendering graphics: UsingFrontEnd vs using a front end
I'm trying to understand how Graphics expressions are rendered. I create an invisible notebook, write a cell and evaluate it, then rasterize the notebook.
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Question about Clear function
I have a script starting with Clear ["r*", "data*", "file*"]. Does this clear all variables starting with "r" or "data"or "file"? Also, I ...
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Variable depth of nesting inside Table [closed]
I need to create a table where there are variable number of iterators.
something like
Table[s_1 *s_2 *... s_n,{s_1,1,5},{s_2,1,5},....,{s_n,1,5}]
where n is a ...
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How to retrieve the original mathematical expressions from some sort of scripts?
I quit my Mathematica notebook session mid-computation. When I reopen it, the mathematical expression disappeared leaving something like
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wolframscript output differs when code is stored in a file
I noticed that the output from wolframscript appears to be different when running interactively and when running with code in a file.
I tried searching for this, ...
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How to calculate the variation of curvature along the horizontal axis
I have a data set with $(x,y)$ coordinates. I do the following to import the data
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Why does Region[] not work with Wolframscript on MMA 12.0.0
On my computer:
wolframscript
In[1]:= polygon = Import["https://pastebin.com/raw/d3MRBb8K"];
In[2]:= rmesh = Region[polygon];
The code ...
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Is it possible to generate and export plots in a high-performance cluster environment?
I have access to a cluster that uses SLURM. I am not very knowledgeable about using clusters, so figuring out how to submit Mathematica jobs was a challenge but eventually something was worked out. ...
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How to use Mathematica code in LaTeX files?
How can you use Mathematica code in LaTeX files?
any similar to
A random number is RNUMBER and the square of RNUMBER is RNUMBER^2
appearing numbers instead the capital letters (or Mathematica code) ...
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How to properly call Wolframscript from Python?
I am using Windows 10 x64.
If I run the following code in Command Prompt:
wolframscript -code ToString[TeXForm["Integrate[Tan[x],x]"]]
I get the following ...
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Entering natural language input in WolframScript
What is the equivalent of typing = at the beginning of a line to specify natural language input in WolframScript?
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Difference between math and wolframscript
It seems that both math and wolframscript can be used to run Mathematica scripts on the ...
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Running mathematica from terminal
I was looking information about how to run a mathematical script from shell in a remote cluster. Normally, I used this command:
math <file.m> file.out&
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Logging modules in Mathematica?
Is there any logging module or functions or scripts that one can use to store all the information of what happens during executing mathematica program in Wolfram?
For example, one might look up log....
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What is the difference between Wolfram Script and Wolfram Engine?
I don't understand the difference between these products:
Wolfram Script
Wolfram Engine
Would someone help me understand what these are? And how it differs from just using Mathematica in the ...
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Run .m file in terminal
I have the following .m file
(* ::Package:: *)
(* ::Input:: *)
(*out=1+1;*)
(*Print["Test"];*)
(*Export["/path/test.txt",out];*)
and I am trying to run it in the ...
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Characters don't print right in WolframScript
Mathematica version: 12.1 & 11.3
Platform: Windows 10
Since windows's cmd is GBK, so my file is GBK.
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Problems in running mathematica file in the background
I have converted my Mathematica notebook into .m file and need to run it in the background on a remote server. I am launching the run from my laptop, on a remote workstation. I need it to obey the ...
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Error while exporting multiple files
I have two questions. I am trying to export results from my calculation when I iterate. I am processing multiple files using code below:
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Can't save output in the script mode
I encounter the problem that I can't save any output from Mathematica script. Here is a minimal example.
test.m
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Missing decades in LogLinearplot
I wanted to display all the decades (from 1 to 10^8 like 1 ,10, 10^2, 10^3 etc) in LogLinearPlot and also tried the solution of why-is-listlogplot-skipping-entire-decades.
And my code is something ...
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Need help to find a value to linearize the data [closed]
I have a two column data which is y vs x. I want to linearize the data by this formula 1/(x-b) but I don't know how to determine the b value such that the ln(y) vs 1/(x-b) becomes a linear line. So I ...
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Difference between versions of WolframScript
On my computer (Windows 10) I currently have installed 4 instances of wolframscript.exe. They represent different versions of WolframScript program and each file is ...
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How to create a progress bar using Wolframscript?
I am using Wolfram script with a Mac OS. I have a long while loop dependent on the length of a list. i.e.:
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Notebook ran as batch and CloudDeploy
i am new to mathematica, and i am trying to run a notebook as batch job(i will elaborate on this later). According to the documentation, running mathematica from command line using the -script ...
