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[project @ 2007-01-09 04:31:18 by jwe]
author | jwe |
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date | Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:33:46 +0000 |
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## Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton ## ## This file is part of Octave. ## ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ## any later version. ## ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ## General Public License for more details. ## ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA ## 02110-1301, USA. ## -*- texinfo -*- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{msg}, @var{msgid}] =} copyfile (@var{f1}, @var{f2}, @var{force}) ## Copy the file @var{f1} to the new name @var{f2}. The name @var{f1} ## may contain globbing patterns. If @var{f1} expands to multiple file ## names, @var{f2} must be a directory. If @var{force} is given and equals ## the string "f" the copy operation will be forced. ## ## If successful, @var{status} is 1, with @var{msg} and @var{msgid} empty\n\ ## character strings. Otherwise, @var{status} is 0, @var{msg} contains a\n\ ## system-dependent error message, and @var{msgid} contains a unique\n\ ## message identifier.\n\ ## @seealso{glob, movefile} ## @end deftypefn function [status, msg, msgid] = copyfile (f1, f2, force) status = true; msg = ""; msgid = ""; ## FIXME -- maybe use the same method as in ls to allow users control ## over the command that is executed. if (ispc () && ! isunix () && isempty (file_in_path (EXEC_PATH, "cp"))) ## Windows. cmd = "cmd /C xcopy /E"; cmd_force_flag = "/Y"; else cmd = "cp -r"; cmd_force_flag = "-f"; endif if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3) ## Input type check. if (! (ischar (f1) || iscellstr (f1))) error ("copyfile: first argument must be a character string or a cell array of character strings"); endif if (! ischar (f2)) error ("copyfile: second argument must be a character string"); endif if (nargin == 3 && strcmp (force, "f")) cmd = strcat (cmd, " ", cmd_force_flag); endif ## If f1 isn't a cellstr convert it to one. if (ischar (f1)) f1 = cellstr (f1); endif ## Protect the file name(s). f1 = glob (f1); f1 = sprintf ("\"%s\" ", f1{:}); ## Copy the files. [err, msg] = system (sprintf ("%s %s \"%s\"", cmd, f1, f2)); if (err < 0) status = false; msgid = "copyfile"; endif else print_usage (); endif endfunction