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[project @ 2006-10-10 19:13:49 by jwe]
author jwe
date Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:13:49 +0000
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1 ## Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton
2 ##
3 ## This file is part of Octave.
4 ##
5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
8 ## any later version.
9 ##
10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 ## General Public License for more details.
14 ##
15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
17 ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
18 ## 02110-1301, USA.
19
20 ## -*- texinfo -*-
21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{status}, @var{msg}, @var{msgid}] =} movefile (@var{f1}, @var{f2})
22 ## Move the file @var{f1} to the new name @var{f2}. The name @var{f1}
23 ## may contain globbing patterns. If @var{f1} expands to multiple file
24 ## names, @var{f2} must be a directory.
25 ##
26 ## If successful, @var{status} is 1, with @var{msg} and @var{msgid} empty\n\
27 ## character strings. Otherwise, @var{status} is 0, @var{msg} contains a\n\
28 ## system-dependent error message, and @var{msgid} contains a unique\n\
29 ## message identifier.\n\
30 ## @seealso{glob}
31 ## @end deftypefn
32
33 function [status, msg, msgid] = copyfile (f1, f2, force)
34
35 status = true;
36 msg = "";
37 msgid = "";
38
39 if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3)
40 if (nargin == 3 && strcmp (force, "f"))
41 cmd = "/bin/cp -rf";
42 else
43 cmd = "/bin/cp -r";
44 endif
45 [err, msg] = system (sprintf ("%s %s %s", cmd, f1, f2));
46 if (err < 0)
47 status = false;
48 msgid = "copyfile";
49 endif
50 else
51 print_usage ();
52 endif
53
54 endfunction