How can I start octave from the command line and not the GUI?

Question

I recently installed GNU Octave on my Mac using Homebrew and as soon as I typed octave into bash, it opened up the octave-gui window. The Octave GUI looks quite un

Answer 1

you can get the infomation from the wiki of octave http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows:

Octave-3.8.2

The site that provide previous version of octave for windows of ver. 3.8.2 (unofficial build using mxe-octave) is closed. A mirrored binary can be downloaded at File list of Octave for Windows.

If you got any problems while running Windows 8 or libstdc++-6.dll errors, try this octave-gui.bat file and place it into your Octave folder (e.g. C:/octave/octave-3.8.2).

@echo off
set PATH=%CD%\bin\
start octave --force-gui -i --line-editing
exit

Simplely, you can just add the the C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.2\bin folder path to your Environment Variables , like this: