Multiple GNU Octave Instances

Question

I've searched to try and find the answer to this question, but unfortunately, information is few and far between.

I need to be able to open multiple instances of GNU Octave to run a script which will convert a file. Each file takes approximately 5 minutes to convert, so for 10 files I'm waiting nearly 50 minutes.

However, I can (and have) manually open 10 instances of Octave and run the script manually in each instance. Is there a way to do this programmatically? So if I had 10 files, 10 different instances of Octave would open and each would run the script to convert 1 file. These conversions aren't dependent on each other, but if it's simple enough to communicate between the different instances of Octave, that would be a "nice to know".

Answer 1

I believe you can use some of the high-level commands, like system and popen which Octave include for starting subprocesses. These subprocesses allow you to start new tasks or start another program. After performing the tasks it can observe the output, which is a way to communicate with the main program that starts the subprocesses.

You should take a look at the following reference page , which covers the different approaches.