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Section: Operating System Functions
The system
function allows you to call an external program from within FreeMat, and capture the output. The syntax of the system
function is
y = system(cmd)
where cmd
is the command to execute. The return array y
is of type cell-array
, where each entry in the array corresponds to a line from the output.
Here is an example of calling the ls
function (the list files function under Un*x-like operating system).
--> y = system('ls a*.m') y = [addtest2.m] [addtest3.m] [addtest.m] --> y{1} ans = addtest2.m