Re: fprintf doesn't write "hello" to temporary file

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 10/23/2009 09:56 AM, Aditya Bhagwat wrote:
> Dear all,
> > fileName = sprintf('%s.sh', tmpnam());
> > fid = fopen(fileName, "w");
> > fprintf(fid, "hello\n");
> > fclose(fid);

Good so far...

> > cat(fileName)

.. but here you have a wrong cat. Check out Octave's help: 'help cat'
reveals that this is its array concatenation function, not the 
filesystem 'cat' command. Try one of those:

system(sprintf('cat %s',fileName))

system(['cat ' fileName])