Re: a=which('myfile')

[viveks]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Daniel Heiserer wrote:

> is there a way to obtain the output of 
> "which"?
> 
> myfile_=which('myfile');
> 
> Then I can check the path in which myfile is.

I tried it with system as given below.

        octave:355> xxxx = system("which octave")
        xxxx = /usr/bin/octave
 
However, this would work with files in the system path (executable
programs).

One more example below:

        octave:356> xxxx = system("which ls")
        xxxx = /bin/ls
 
Otherwise, "which" function of octave works the other way:

        octave:363> help which
        which is a builtin text-function

        which NAME ...

        display the type of each NAME.  If NAME is defined from an function
        file, print the full name of the file.

        octave:364> which("tmp")
        which: `tmp' is the script file: /home/viveks/2k/july2k/27/tmp.m

        octave:365> which("K")
        K is a user-defined variable

If this does not answer your question, perhaps I haven't understood the
problem. Or, I don't know the answer.

Vivek...




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