From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Feb 12 11:16:28 2003
Subject: Re: Escape to shell
From: Tim Piessens <Tim dot Piessens at esat dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
To: Serni Ribo Vedrilla <ribo at ieec dot fcr dot es>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:16:13 +0100 (MET)

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Serni Ribo Vedrilla wrote:

>     Hello,
>
> I tried to find a command equivalent to the ! in MATLAB, so an escape to
> shell. I need to execute some programs and I want then use the returned
> data with octave to further process it. Does somebody know if this
> feature exists?
>

You can use different commands for that, dependent on what you want them
to do : system, exec, popen

help -i system

Tim



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