SCIVERBOSE
Provides debugging information of the startup
Scilab shell
scilab <arguments>
A complete list of options is included below.
-args <rest>
Accept all extra arguments and make them available through sciargs
Use the given server display (under Xwindow systems)
-e <instruction>
Execute the scilab instruction given in argument (-e and -f arguments are mutually exclusive.)
-f <file>
Execute the scilab script given in argument (-e and -f arguments are mutually exclusive.)
-quit
Force scilab exit after execution of script from -e or -f argument (this flag is ignored if it is not used with -e or -f argument)
-l <lang>
change the language of scilab (default : en_US)
-nocolor
Remove the color in the cli and adv-cli modes
-nw
Enable console mode
Enable terminal mode
--parse-trace
Display bison state machine evolution
--AST-trace
Display ASCII-art AST to be human readable
--pretty-print
Display pretty-printed code, standard Scilab syntax.
--AST-timed
Time each AST node
--timed
Time global execution
--context-dump
Display context status
--exec-verbose
Display command before running it.
-nb
Do not display Scilab loading on start
-noatomsautoload
Do not load ATOMS installed module
--no-exec
Only do Lexing/parsing do not execute instructions
-nouserstartup
Do not execute the user startup files SCIHOME/.scilab or SCIHOME/scilab.ini
-ns
Don't execute etc/scilab.start (will disable many features - only use if you know what you are doing)
--timeout <delay>
Kill the Scilab process after the given delay
-debug
Start Scilab under gdb (define the variable SCILAB_GDB_OPT to add custom arguments to gdb)
-debug-kdbg
Start Scilab under kdbg
-profiling
Start Scilab under valgrind (define the variable SCILAB_VALGRIND_OPT to add custom arguments to valgrind and override the existing valgrind arguments)
-profiling-visu
Start Scilab under callgrind (define the variable SCILAB_VALGRIND_OPT to add custom arguments to callgrind and override the existing callgrind arguments)
-disable-exception-catching
Disable Scilab exception catching system.
--parse-file <file>
Only parse the given file argument without execution and exit
--parse-trace
Display bison state machine evolution
--pretty-print
Display pretty-printed code using standard Scilab syntax
SCIVERBOSE
Provides debugging information of the startup
JAVA_HOME
Declares which Java Virtual Machine to use
SCI_DISABLE_TK
Disables Tk (but not Tcl) features
SCI_JAVA_ENABLE_HEADLESS
Runs Java Headless VM
SCI_DISABLE_EXCEPTION_CATCHING
Disable the catch by Scilab of exception (segfault, ...)
8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 4 times.
--AST-timed since Debian 10 (Buster);
--AST-trace since Debian 10 (Buster);
--context-dump since Debian 10 (Buster);
--exec-verbose since Debian 10 (Buster);
--no-exec since Debian 10 (Buster);
--parse-file since Debian 10 (Buster);
--parse-trace since Debian 10 (Buster);
--pretty-print since Debian 10 (Buster);
--timed since Debian 10 (Buster);
--timeout since Debian 10 (Buster);
-args since Debian 8 (Jessie);
-debug since Debian 8 (Jessie);
-debug-kdbg since Debian 8 (Jessie);
-disable-exception-catching since Debian 10 (Buster);
-e since Debian 10 (Buster);
-noatomsautoload since Debian 10 (Buster);
-nocolor since Debian 8 (Jessie);
-nw since Debian 8 (Jessie);
-profiling since Debian 8 (Jessie);
-profiling-visu since Debian 10 (Buster);
-quit since Debian 10 (Buster).
--texmacs until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-h until Debian 7 (Wheezy);
-mem until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-nogui until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-nwni until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-version until Debian 9 (Stretch).