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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What is an example of of idiomatic “typed” WolframScript?
I'd like to make my own "typed function" in WolframScript. Suppose the type we desire is called money, and we'd like to make a function called ...
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Removing Extra Points When Finding an Audio Envelope
I am trying to reproduce Camtasia's way of displaying audio signals which is a strictly positive envelope of the audio signal and very easy for me to identify some sounds visually. These are displays ...
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Testing if a function input is an integer
I am wondering why code like
digitback[n_Integer] := Framed[Reverse[IntegerDigits[n]]]
can check if the input for the function is an integer (this is the ...
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TeXForm doesn't work in wolframscript?
Consider that
$ wolframscript -cloud -code 'TeXForm[ (d u)/(d t)]'
TeXForm[u/t]
yet
I don't have a local wolframscript kernel installed. Is this something ...
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WolframScript Causing Gibberish Characters When Printing to Console
Placing the following in ./file.wls:
e1 = a (x + I y) E^(I θ)
ComplexExpand[e1]
and running ...
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Running CloudDeploy from WolframScript
The following
$ wolframscript -cloud -code "CloudDeploy[Manipulate[n, {n, 1, 100}]]"
yields
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Querying WolframAlpha from WolframScript
Is it possible to query WolframAlpha from a wolframscript query? The following yields $Failed:
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Creating flags to use with wolframscript?
Is it possible to create flags to pass arguments into a script with wolframscript? I am trying to pass multiple variables that correlate to specific keys.
For example,
wolframscript -script ...
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2answers
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Mathematica code in fortran [closed]
I have an integral in which the integrand is a combination of ratio of modified bessel function of second kind. I am able to find the solution of this integral with mathematica Nintegrate module with ...
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How to create a find-and-replace code in Mathematica?
Let's say I have a group of X's characters that I want to cut down. I want to use a method similar to 'find-and-replace-all' tool from Word, which takes an amount of X's each time, deletes them, and ...
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How does one use the free Wolfram Engine for developers on Linux?
I just downloaded wolframscript on Linux. Downloading the "free wolfram engine for developers" gives me a ...
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1answer
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Getting a link to a Wolfram Cloud notebook from a WolframScript query?
Is there a way to make something like
wolframscript -code 'Plot3D[Sin[x + y^2], {x, -3, 3}, {y, -2, 2}]' -cloud
spin up a new Wolfram Online notebook with the ...
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Getting wolframscript to print out error messages?
While running a .wls file from the command line using wolframscript, is there a way to get the error messages printed to the command line?
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Context leak in Wolfram Script?
hello.nb
SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], CellContext -> Notebook]
Print["hello"];
a = 1;
Print[a];
Print@Context[]
bye.nb
...
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Console Output to file corrupted
When i run WolframScript and write the output of a *.wls to a file and then modified the program slightly, i started getting these more exotic outputs. The function used is NetTrain. Does someone ...
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1answer
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Define a function when given a graph with points (0,3),(2,5),(10,4),(6,2) [closed]
Define a function when you are given a graph with points (0,3),(2,5),(10,4),(6,2)
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Passing custom options to WolframScript file
I have an example of WolframScript file file.wls with the following contents.
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WolframScript fails silently intermittently (but only when connected to internet)
When I execute "wolframscript" from a bash shell repeatedly, it sometimes starts up, and sometimes fails. Failures occur about half of the time. The failure is silent.
If I turn wifi off (so that I ...
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Electric Field Plot
I want to show an electric field of several arrangements of point charges in xy-plane.
I wrote a routine that plots an electric field of a charge:
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API is not responding
I am looking at the examples of wolframscript to learn its capabilities and syntax. In one of the examples the following API is considered.
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1answer
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Writing a script that exports results depending on user input
Is there a way to tell Export to hold its arguments and just Export.
I tried to use ...
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1answer
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Disable Message Windows
Is there any way to disable Mathematica's internal popup windows, such as "Why the beep?"
Cannot seem to find any documentation on the ability to turn it off, but need it turned off to write some ...
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1answer
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How to export parameters in a text file?
I have some parameters defined in my notebook as, for example,
a=1;
b=2;
c=3;
and I want to export these parameters to a .txt file in which I have the following ...
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Wolframscript does not terminate
I have a little package and a script. The portion in the script is copied from the Mathematica notebook and finishes just fine within half a minute on my laptop. Now I want to run this as a script on ...
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Privilege violation for file or directory
hopefully somebody can help me out with the following;
I have a mathematica .wl script which uses ParallelTable;
When I run this locally (laptop) it works ...
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How to automatic close the Command window when a wolframescript is end of operation？
I have generated a .wls file in Mathematica 11. A command window will appear when the .wls runs, but the command window will ...
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Passing arguments into a script in WolframScript
According to https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/program/wolframscript.html i can pass arguments to a file containing wolframscript. But i cannot find a way to actually use passed arguments.
<...
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How to copy a string to the clipboard from a script?
How to copy a string to the clipboard from a script?
I want the wolfram script to copy a string to the clipboard.
Unfortunately the following script fails to do this.
The same code works perfectly ...
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Animate particle's trajectory
Does anyone know how to animate the trajectory of a particle, but make sure before the particle reaching a certain spot, there's nothing. I mean I want to make an animation that look like https://en....
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How can I test my machine learning model on a machine with no Mathematica?
I need to test my machine learning models that I’ve built using Predict on 100,000 observations. The problem is that the machine where the testing is done doesn’t ...
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Another way to calculate frequency from Fourier transform
I have some trouble with calculating frequency after Fourier transform.
My code:
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1answer
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How to use InputForm for printed and output expressions in console mode
When I run Mathematica in console mode (math.exe/wolfram.exe) without a GUI frontend, then printed and output expressions are (...
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Not getting any output from mathematica script
I am completely new, so this question may be trivial, but I can't find any answers in the Wolfram documentation.
I am playing around with scripting in Mathematica, but I cannot seem to get any type ...
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How to have batch script wait for free licence before executing?
Is there any way to make a mathematica script (that I'm running in batch using HTCondor) wait until there is an available licence before executing? Several of my scripts are returning nothing but ...
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Convert .nb to .m with a single script or command line in linux [duplicate]
I have some scripts in ".nb" format and I am more used to launch them in Linux command line in Linux but I need them in ".m" format.
Usually I open the ".nb" script with the Mathematica Notebook and ...
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Detect if running in a script
Is there a reliable way to detect if the current code is running within a script?
Note that there are multiple ways to run a script, such as
...
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Beginner's Problem [closed]
Suppose I have an expression like $7zz_1+5zz_1-\frac{7z_1}{y}+\frac{5z_1}{l}$. How do I convert it to $7(z-\frac{1}{y})z_1+5(z+\frac{1}{l})z_1$. Please help.
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RunProcess returns a confusing error message when using ProcessDirectory options
Here is one way to find the names of the files in one's home directory:
FileNames["*", "~"]
(* { "~/.account", "~/Applications", "~/.bash_sessions", ... } *)
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Command line arguments to wolframscript interact strangely with -file option
In order to avoid script-defined command-line arguments clashing with existing arguments to wolframscript, it appears you are supposed to use the ...
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How to avoid running code when a script is imported as a package?
In Python, the boilerplate line if __name__ == "__main__": defines a code block that should be executed when the code is run as a script, but not when imported as a ...
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Using an existing local kernel when launching from command line
I am trying to setup a web interface to a couple of Mathematica scripts, which in itself is quite simple:
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How to execute a Mathematica notebook in a shell script to produce plots/graphics [duplicate]
I want to produce some plots/graphics for a large amount of data on a computing cluster in a high-throughput way. I'd like to do this by piping results through Mathematica where I'd apply some post-...
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Wolfram Script Console Doesn't Close Automatically on Windows
I'm not exactly sure how Wolfram Scripts are supposed to work. So I wrote a simple one to configure MaTeX for me so that all I have to do is double click it on a system where I've installed ...
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How do I plot the PDF of a Mixed distribution with the following parameters?
m = FindDistribution[d2, 1]
MixtureDistribution[{0.719504,0.280496}, {NormalDistribution[-4.85601, 2.63207], NormalDistribution[-2.7934, 0.845561]}]
I need to ...
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Launching kernels… freezes
I'm running a Mathematica script on a remote machine (via ssh connection). I log on the machine and I execute math -script algorithm.m and this message appears
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How do I create 3d plot of a sigmoid or linear function in 3d?
How can i plot a 2d function (y=x) in 3d with decaying z values. Something like this
One side of the curve can be flat at max too,like the right side, I am mostly interested in decaying values ...
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Save output of Mathematica batch job to file
bsub "math -script input.m > output.out"
runs the Mathematica command in input.m as a batch job and should print the output ...
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Passing UTF-8 to wolframscript on the command line
I am trying to use Unicode input to wolframscript -c, like so:
$ ./wolframscript -c '1/∞'
â^(-1)
The source of this behavior ...
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Wolframscript output not evaluated
Edit: I made a stupid mistake, see answer below
Whenever I execute wolframscript code from the command line, my Print[] output ...
