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
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On MacOS, if installed Octave by dmg file, you can add alias to your ~/.bashrc file.
alias octave-cli='/Applications/Octave-4.4.1.app/Contents/Resources/usr/bin/octave-cli'
Then start octave-cli in command line by 'octave-cli'.