100 Command-line options

The following command line options are available for Maxima:

-b <file>, --batch=<file>

Process maxima file <file> in batch mode.

--batch-lisp=<file>

Process lisp file <file> in batch mode.

--batch-string=<string>

Process maxima command(s) <string> in batch mode.

-d, --directories

Display maxima internal directory information.

--disable-readline

Disable readline support.

-g, --enable-lisp-debugger

Enable underlying lisp debugger.

-Q, --quit-on-error

Quit, and return an exit code 1, when Maxima encounters an error.

-h, --help

Display this usage message.

--userdir=<directory>

Use <directory> for user directory (default is %USERPROFILE%/maxima for Windows, and $HOME/.maxima for other operating systems).

--init=<file>

Set the base name of the Maxima & Lisp initialization files (default is "maxima-init".) The last extension and any directory parts are removed to form the base name. The resulting files, <base>.mac and <base>.lisp are only searched for in userdir (see –userdir option). This may be specified for than once, but only the last is used.

-l <lisp>, --lisp=<lisp>

Use lisp implementation <lisp>.

--list-avail

List the installed version/lisp combinations.

-p <file>, --preload=<file>, --preload-lisp=<file>, --init-mac=<file>, --init-lisp=<file>

Preload <file>, which may be any file time accepted by Maxima’s LOAD function. The <file> is loaded before any other system initialization is done. This will be searched for in the locations given by file_search_maxima and file_search_lisp. This can be specified multiple times to load multiple files. The equivalent options –preload-lisp, –init-mac, and –init-lisp are deprecated.

-q, --quiet

Suppress Maxima start-up message.

--very-quiet

Suppress expression labels, the Maxima start-up message, verification of the HTML index and load-ing related messages.

--very-very-quiet

In addition to --very-quiet, set ttyoff to true to suppress most printed output.

-r <string>, --run-string=<string>

Process maxima command(s) <string> in interactive mode.

-s <port>, --server=<port>

Connect Maxima to server on <port>.

-u <version>, --use-version=<version>

Use maxima version <version>.

-v, --verbose

Display lisp invocation in maxima wrapper script.

--version

Display the default installed version.

--very-quiet

Suppress expression labels and Maxima start-up message.

-X <Lisp options>, --lisp-options=<Lisp options>

Options to be given to the underlying Lisp

--no-init, --norc

Do not load the init file(s) on startup

--no-verify-html-index

Do not verify on startup that the set of html topics is consistent with text topics.