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strcat.m: Matlab compatibility, with cstrcat.m replacing conventional strcat.m.
| author | Ben Abbott <bpabbott@mac.com> |
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| date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:41:19 -0500 |
| parents | fab9bc33b949 |
| children | 95c3e38098bf |
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| 7352 | 1 ## Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 John W. Eaton |
| 6047 | 2 ## |
| 3 ## This file is part of Octave. | |
| 4 ## | |
| 5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
| 6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 7016 | 7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at |
| 8 ## your option) any later version. | |
| 6047 | 9 ## |
| 10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
| 11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
| 13 ## General Public License for more details. | |
| 14 ## | |
| 15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 7016 | 16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see |
| 17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
| 6047 | 18 |
| 19 ## -*- texinfo -*- | |
| 20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{msg}, @var{msgid}] =} movefile (@var{f1}, @var{f2}) | |
| 21 ## Move the file @var{f1} to the new name @var{f2}. The name @var{f1} | |
| 22 ## may contain globbing patterns. If @var{f1} expands to multiple file | |
| 23 ## names, @var{f2} must be a directory. | |
| 24 ## | |
| 25 ## If successful, @var{status} is 1, with @var{msg} and @var{msgid} empty\n\ | |
| 26 ## character strings. Otherwise, @var{status} is 0, @var{msg} contains a\n\ | |
| 27 ## system-dependent error message, and @var{msgid} contains a unique\n\ | |
| 28 ## message identifier.\n\ | |
| 29 ## @seealso{glob} | |
| 30 ## @end deftypefn | |
| 31 | |
| 32 function [status, msg, msgid] = movefile (f1, f2, force) | |
| 33 | |
| 6679 | 34 max_cmd_line = 1024; |
| 6047 | 35 status = true; |
| 36 msg = ""; | |
| 37 msgid = ""; | |
| 38 | |
| 6210 | 39 ## FIXME -- maybe use the same method as in ls to allow users control |
| 40 ## over the command that is executed. | |
| 41 | |
| 6679 | 42 if (ispc () && ! isunix () && isempty (file_in_path (EXEC_PATH, "mv.exe"))) |
| 6233 | 43 ## Windows. |
| 6210 | 44 cmd = "cmd /C move"; |
| 45 cmd_force_flag = "/Y"; | |
| 46 else | |
| 47 cmd = "mv"; | |
| 48 cmd_force_flag = "-f"; | |
| 49 endif | |
| 50 | |
| 6047 | 51 if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3) |
| 6233 | 52 ## Input type check. |
| 53 if (! (ischar (f1) || iscellstr (f1))) | |
| 6679 | 54 error ("movefile: first argument must be a character string or a cell array of character strings"); |
| 6233 | 55 endif |
| 56 | |
| 57 if (! ischar (f2)) | |
| 6679 | 58 error ("movefile: second argument must be a character string"); |
| 6233 | 59 endif |
| 60 | |
| 6047 | 61 if (nargin == 3 && strcmp (force, "f")) |
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strcat.m: Matlab compatibility, with cstrcat.m replacing conventional strcat.m.
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62 cmd = cstrcat (cmd, " ", cmd_force_flag); |
| 6047 | 63 endif |
| 6069 | 64 |
| 6233 | 65 ## If f1 isn't a cellstr convert it to one. |
| 66 if (ischar (f1)) | |
| 67 f1 = cellstr (f1); | |
| 6069 | 68 endif |
| 6233 | 69 |
| 6679 | 70 ## If f1 has more than 1 element f2 must be a directory |
| 71 isdir = (exist (f2, "dir") != 0); | |
| 72 if (length(f1) > 1 && ! isdir) | |
| 73 error ("movefile: when moving multiple files, second argument must be a directory"); | |
| 74 endif | |
| 75 | |
| 6233 | 76 ## Protect the file name(s). |
| 77 f1 = glob (f1); | |
| 7352 | 78 if (isempty (f1)) |
| 79 error ("movefile: no files to move"); | |
| 80 endif | |
| 6679 | 81 p1 = sprintf ("\"%s\" ", f1{:}); |
| 82 p2 = tilde_expand (f2); | |
| 6069 | 83 |
| 6679 | 84 if (isdir && length(p1) > max_cmd_line) |
| 85 l2 = length(p2) + length (cmd) + 6; | |
| 86 while (! isempty(f1)) | |
| 87 p1 = sprintf ("\"%s\" ", f1{1}); | |
| 88 f1(1) = []; | |
| 89 while (!isempty (f1) && (length(p1) + length(f1{1}) + l2 < | |
| 90 max_cmd_line)) | |
| 91 p1 = sprintf ("%s\"%s\" ", p1, f1{1}); | |
| 92 f1(1) = []; | |
| 93 endwhile | |
| 94 | |
| 95 if (ispc () && ! isunix () && ! isempty (file_in_path (EXEC_PATH, "cp.exe"))) | |
| 96 p1 = strrep (p1, "\\", "/"); | |
| 97 p2 = strrep (p2, "\\", "/"); | |
| 98 endif | |
| 6398 | 99 |
| 6679 | 100 ## Move the file(s). |
| 6828 | 101 [err, msg] = system (sprintf ("%s %s \"%s\"", cmd, p1, p2)); |
| 6679 | 102 if (err < 0) |
| 103 status = false; | |
| 104 msgid = "movefile"; | |
| 105 endif | |
| 106 endwhile | |
| 107 else | |
| 108 if (ispc () && ! isunix () && ! isempty (file_in_path (EXEC_PATH, "cp.exe"))) | |
| 109 p1 = strrep (p1, "\\", "/"); | |
| 110 p2 = strrep (p2, "\\", "/"); | |
| 111 endif | |
| 112 | |
| 113 ## Move the file(s). | |
| 6828 | 114 [err, msg] = system (sprintf ("%s %s \"%s\"", cmd, p1, p2)); |
| 6679 | 115 if (err < 0) |
| 116 status = false; | |
| 117 msgid = "movefile"; | |
| 118 endif | |
| 6047 | 119 endif |
| 120 else | |
| 121 print_usage (); | |
| 122 endif | |
| 123 endfunction |