trying to do a dos copy file command from an octave function in Windows Vista

[Tim Rueth]

Hi all,

 

I'm trying to effectively do the following Windows DOS command from within an Octave function:

 

copy var1*var2.txt var1var2.txt

 

So, I created the following very simple function:

 

function [] = concatresults(var1, var2);

# copy all var1...var2.txt files to a single output file called var1var2.txt

 

     fin = [var1 "*" var2 ".txt"];

     fout = [var1 var2 ".txt"];

     dos("copy fin fout");

 

endfunction;

The function doesn't work, and when I execute the individual commands at the octave prompt, it says "The system cannot find the file specified." after executing the dos() function.

 

I could just open up a command window and do the copy, but I'm hoping to automate this as part of a larger function.  I'm sure there's a simple way to do this from within Octave.  Help please?

 

Thanks,

 

--Tim