We could type A = [1 2; 3 4; 5 6] and size(A), then Octave returns "ans = 3 2".
In fact, size(A) returns a 1*2 matrix.
>> size(A,1)
ans = 3 % row of matrix A
>> v = [1 2 3 4];
>> length(v)
>> pwd % show current path
>> ls % show all files
>> load xxx.dat
>> load('xxx.dat')
>> who % show all variables
>> whos % show variables size bytes and class
>> clear featureX % delete the featureX variable
>> save hello.mat v;
>> save hello.text v -ascii
>> A(2,:) % ":" means every element along that row/column
>> A([1 3], :)
>> A(:) % make matrix be a column matrix