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runs the standalone Mathematica kernel. To access the full Mathematica system including the notebook interface, use mathematica.
A standalone kernel session normally reads input from (typically a keyboard), evaluates the expression, and prints the results to (typically a display device). Input and output can be redirected using Mathematica commands or standard shell mechanisms.
The following command-line options can be given:

	-mathlink	communicate only via MathLink
	-initfile "file"	execute the commands in the initialization file during startup
	-lmverbose	print information about interactions with MathLM
	-noinit	do not read any initialization files
	-password "pw"	use the password
	-pwfile "file"	read passwords from
	-run cmd	run on startup
	-noprompt	do not print banner or In/Out prompts (useful for batch input)
	-script "file"	execute the commands from the in a script mode

If the -script command-line option is given, the kernel evaluates commands from the in a batch, or script, mode and then terminates.
In a script mode the kernel prints no banner and no In[] or Out[] labels, and generates all output in InputForm, with the PageWidth option effectively set to Infinity.
In a script mode the standard input and output are not redirected, so that the input and output can be used in a pipe with other processes.
In a script mode, the kernel ignores the first line of the file if it starts with the characters "#!".
If no command-line options are given, the kernel will read the value of the environment variable and will use that value as though it had been entered on the command line.
Unless the Mathematica variable $IgnoreEOF is set to True, the kernel will exit when it receives an end-of-file character sequence. The kernel will always exit when given the command Quit.