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author | Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> |
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date | Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:35:16 -0700 |
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7017 | 1 ## Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 John W. Eaton |
4691 | 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. | |
4691 | 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/>. | |
4691 | 18 |
19 ## -*- texinfo -*- | |
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{text}]} unix (@var{command}) |
4911 | 21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{text}]} unix (@var{command}, "-echo") |
4691 | 22 ## Execute a system command if running under a Unix-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. | |
5642 | 27 ## @seealso{isunix, ispc, system} |
4911 | 28 ## @end deftypefn |
4691 | 29 |
30 ## Author: octave-forge ??? | |
31 ## Adapted by: jwe | |
32 | |
33 function [status, text] = unix (cmd, echo_arg) | |
34 | |
35 if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2) | |
6046 | 36 print_usage (); |
4691 | 37 elseif (isunix ()) |
5659 | 38 [status, text] = system (cmd); |
4691 | 39 if (nargin > 1 || nargout == 0) |
40 printf ("%s\n", text); | |
41 endif | |
42 endif | |
43 | |
44 endfunction |