Re: Win32: Using system cmd to invoke batch file

[Stephen Simpson]

Okay, i think that i have figured it out...

afaik octave resides in a bash shell under cygwin.  this means that the 
"command parameter" for octave's system command should follow bash 
rules.  in other words path names that include spaces should be delimited 
within single quotes (ASCII 39 dec), AND dos / windows style path 
separators must be specifically quoted using the backslash token (ASCII 92 
dec).

ie. filename arguements for native windows/dos commands that are embedded 
in the "STRING" parameter of octave's system command should be specified 
using any of the following formats

'DRIVE_NAME:\\FILE_NAME'

or

'DRIVE_NAME:\\PATH_PART_1\\...\\PATH_PART_N\\FILE_NAME'

or using UNC

'\\\\MACHINE_NAME\\SHARE_NAME\\FILE_NAME'

or

'\\\\MACHINE_NAME\\SHARE_NAME\\PATH_PART_1\\...\\PATH_PART_N\\FILE_NAME'

eg. say i wanted to run a batch file from within octave called 
"LoadUsingExcel.bat" that takes a single filename parameter, "C:\path with 
embedded spaces\file name.csv", then i type the following

system("LoadUsingExcel.bat 'C:\\path with embedded spaces\\file name.csv'")

hope this helps


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