Re: octave + shell escape

[Daniel Heiserer]

Hi Dirk,

>   Daniel> "! string to execute on operating system" at the beginning of a
>   Daniel> line.  (like in gnuplot) "unix('string to execute on operating
>   Daniel> system')" I think its not a big problem to implement that. Perhaps
>   Daniel> it is already implemented and I didn't find. Can i help ?
> 
> It is there under the standard name of 'system'. Try
>         help system
>         help -i system
is it hard to make it also matlab compatible ("unix(),!"). I think the
unix() can be done by a simple function called unix, which is a wrapper
for system().
but what about the "!". i have lots of m-files from matlab running with
the "!".
> Hope this helps, Dirk

Yeah thanks.

Daniel