Running command line Maple script interactively

Question

I'm connecting over ssh to a machine running Maple. Is there a way to run a script, let's say derp.mpl, such that after executing the script Maple is still running?

Something perhaps analogous to running python like this:

python -i derp.py

Answer 1

The -F option allows the session to stay open (not quit) after completing whatever computation was started by the script.

maple -F derp.mpl