Re: Changing your directory

[Andy Adler]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Vic Norton wrote:

> How do I set my working directory?
>
> Say I start with
>     octave> myBaseDir = "/Volumes/VTN Junk/Octave"
> I would like to say
>     octave> chdir myBaseDir
> but that doesn't work. Octave says myBaseDir isn't a directory.
> The command
>     octave> chdir "/Volumes/VTN Junk/Octave"
> works fine, but that is not what I want. I want to set my directory
> from the variable myBaseDir.

Just to point out that this will not work under matlab either.

As others have pointed out, you must say
   cd /path/to/dir or
   cd '/path/to/dir' or
   dir= '/path/to/dir' ; cd( dir )

in matlab or octave
--
Andy Adler




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