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[project @ 2006-05-17 21:00:54 by jwe]
author jwe
date Wed, 17 May 2006 21:00:54 +0000
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1 ## Copyright (C) 2004 John W. Eaton
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
7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
8 ## any later version.
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
16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
17 ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
18 ## 02110-1301, USA.
19
20 ## -*- texinfo -*-
21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{text}] =} dos (@var{command})
22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{text}] =} dos (@var{command}, "-echo")
23 ## Execute a system command if running under a Windos-like operating
24 ## system, otherwise do nothing. Return the exit status of the program
25 ## in @var{status} and any output sent to the standard output in
26 ## @var{text}. If the optional second argument @code{"-echo"} is given,
27 ## then also send the output from the command to the standard output.
28 ## @seealso{unix, isunix, ispc, system}
29 ## @end deftypefn
30
31 ## Author: octave-forge ???
32 ## Adapted by: jwe
33
34 function [status, text] = dos (cmd, echo_arg)
35
36 if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
37 usage ( "[status, text] = dos (cmd, '-echo')");
38 elseif (! isunix ())
39 [status, text] = system (cmd);
40 if (nargin > 1 || nargout == 0)
41 printf ("%s\n", text);
42 endif
43 endif
44
45 endfunction