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scripts/miscellaneous/dos.m

changeset 10289: 4b124317dc38
parent:93c65f2a5668
author: John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date: Tue Feb 09 20:58:55 2010 -0500 (56 minutes ago)
permissions: -rw-r--r--
description: base_properties::set_children: account for hidden children 
     1## Copyright (C) 2004, 2006, 2007 John W. Eaton

     2##

     3## This file is part of Octave.

     4##

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    16## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see

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    18

    19## -*- texinfo -*-

    20## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{text}] =} dos (@var{command})

    21## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{text}] =} dos (@var{command}, "-echo")

    22## Execute a system command if running under a Windows-like operating

    23## system, otherwise do nothing.  Return the exit status of the program

    24## in @var{status} and any output sent to the standard output in

    25## @var{text}.  If the optional second argument @code{"-echo"} is given,

    26## then also send the output from the command to the standard output.

    27## @seealso{unix, isunix, ispc, system}

    28## @end deftypefn

    29

    30## Author: octave-forge ???

    31## Adapted by: jwe

    32

    33function [status, text] = dos (cmd, echo_arg)

    34

    35  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)

    36    print_usage ();

    37  elseif (! isunix ())

    38    [status, text] = system (cmd);

    39    if (nargin > 1 || nargout == 0)

    40      printf ("%s\n", text);

    41    endif

    42  endif

    43

    44endfunction