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1 ## Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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8 ## any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free |
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17 ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA |
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18 ## 02110-1301, USA. |
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19 |
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{msg}, @var{msgid}] =} copyfile (@var{f1}, @var{f2}, @var{force}) |
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22 ## Copy the file @var{f1} to the new name @var{f2}. The name @var{f1} |
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23 ## may contain globbing patterns. If @var{f1} expands to multiple file |
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24 ## names, @var{f2} must be a directory. If @var{force} is given and equals |
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25 ## the string "f" the copy operation will be forced. |
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26 ## |
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27 ## If successful, @var{status} is 1, with @var{msg} and @var{msgid} empty\n\ |
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28 ## character strings. Otherwise, @var{status} is 0, @var{msg} contains a\n\ |
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29 ## system-dependent error message, and @var{msgid} contains a unique\n\ |
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30 ## message identifier.\n\ |
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31 ## @seealso{glob, movefile} |
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32 ## @end deftypefn |
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33 |
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34 function [status, msg, msgid] = copyfile (f1, f2, force) |
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35 |
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36 status = true; |
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37 msg = ""; |
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38 msgid = ""; |
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39 |
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40 if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3) |
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41 if (nargin == 3 && strcmp (force, "f")) |
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42 cmd = "/bin/cp -rf"; |
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43 else |
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44 cmd = "/bin/cp -r"; |
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45 endif |
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46 |
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47 ## Allow cell input and protect the file name(s). |
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48 if (iscellstr (f1)) |
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49 f1 = sprintf("\"%s\" ", f1{:}); |
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50 else |
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51 f1 = sprintf("\"%s\" ", f1); |
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52 endif |
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53 |
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54 [err, msg] = system (sprintf ("%s %s \"%s\"", cmd, f1, f2)); |
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55 if (err < 0) |
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56 status = false; |
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57 msgid = "copyfile"; |
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58 endif |
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59 else |
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60 print_usage (); |
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61 endif |
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62 |
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63 endfunction |
