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1 ## Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 S�ren Hauberg |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at |
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8 ## your option) any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see |
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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18 |
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{entries} =} tar (@var{tarfile}, @var{files}, @var{root}) |
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21 ## Pack @var{files} @var{files} into the TAR archive @var{tarfile}. The |
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22 ## list of files must be a string or a cell array of strings. |
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23 ## |
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24 ## The optional argument @var{root} changes the relative path of @var{files} |
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25 ## from the current directory. |
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26 ## |
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27 ## If an output argument is requested the entries in the archive are |
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28 ## returned in a cell array. |
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29 ## @seealso{untar, gzip, gunzip, zip, unzip} |
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30 ## @end deftypefn |
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31 |
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32 ## Author: S�ren Hauberg <hauberg@gmail.com> |
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33 |
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34 function entries = tar (tarfile, files, root) |
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35 |
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36 if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3) |
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37 |
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38 if (nargin == 2) |
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39 root = "."; |
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40 endif |
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41 |
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42 ## Test type of input |
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43 if (ischar (files)) |
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44 files = cellstr (files); |
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45 endif |
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46 |
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47 if (ischar (tarfile) && iscellstr (files) && ischar (root)) |
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48 |
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49 cmd = sprintf ("tar -c -v -f %s -C %s %s", tarfile, root, |
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50 sprintf (" %s", files{:})); |
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51 |
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52 [status, output] = system (cmd); |
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53 |
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54 if (status == 0) |
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55 if (nargout > 0) |
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56 if (output(end) == "\n") |
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57 output(end) = []; |
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58 endif |
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59 entries = cellstr (split (output, "\n")); |
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60 entries = entries'; |
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61 endif |
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62 else |
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63 error ("tar: tar exited with status = %d", status); |
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64 endif |
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65 |
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66 else |
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67 error ("tar: expecting all arguments to be character strings"); |
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68 endif |
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69 |
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70 else |
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71 print_usage("tar"); |
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72 endif |
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73 |
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74 endfunction |
