RE: Running dos command in octave (win32 version)

[Hall, Benjamin]

You could also use the Octave function "unlink" to remove the file

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From: David Bateman [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:16 AM
To: Ciotti, Louis A 
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Subject: Re: Running dos command in octave (win32 version)


According to Ciotti, Louis A  <address@hidden> (on 07/26/04):
> I am trying to run some dos commands within octave, and I cannot seem to
> get them work.  Basically I want to delete some files and run a batch
> file.
> 
> To delete the files I have tried:
> 
> System("del myfile.ext")
> 
> Which gives:
> 
> del: not found
> ans = 127
> 
> What am I doing wrong?


On Windows, octave runs under Cygwin which is basically a
reimplementation of Unix under Windows.  If you tried

system("rm myfile.ext")

you might have had a different result....

Cheers
David

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