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

[Tim Rueth]

 > -----Original Message-----
> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:48 PM
> To: address@hidden; 'Octave-ML'
> Subject: Re: trying to do a dos copy file command from an 
> octave function in Windows Vista
> 
> Hello
> 
> >      dos("copy fin fout");
> 
> should be
> 
> dos(["copy " fin fout]);
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
> 
> --- Tim Rueth  wrote:
> 
> > 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

Brilliant.  Works perfectly (after I added a " " between the two file names
in the copy command).  Thanks!