Change default workspace in Octave

Question

I freshly installed Octave on my Computer and was wondering if I could switch the default workspace from /home/user to, let's say, /home/user/Octave but could not find any advice online... I am using Ubuntu 14.04 if that's of any importance.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

You can create an .octaverc file in your /home/user and add any initialization commands you want, in your example "cd ~/Octave". Btw, there is a very active mailing list for octave: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-octave .