passing argument to scilab

I've used scilab quite a while now, but never properly know to do basic things with it. Here's some redemption. 

>> file argument.sce
args= sciargs(); 
for argc= 1:size(args,2) do 
  printf("%d %s\n", argc, args(argc)); 
end
exit

Then you can run it from console liek:
$ scilab-cli -f argument.sce -args 1 a b $ scilab-adv-cli -f argument.sce -args 1 a b

The output:  
1 /usr/bin/scilab-cli-bin 
2 -f 
3 wa.sce 
4 -args 
5 1 
6 a
7 b

Knowing the argument sequence can be a bit of guesswork if the way you pass argument is inconsistent between runs, though.