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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Torsten Werner
  • Date: 2002-03-21 16:57:43 UTC
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20020321165743-e9mv12c1tb1plztg
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.TH host 1 "April 1993" "Scilab Group" "Scilab Function"
 
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.so ../sci.an
 
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.SH NAME
 
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host - shell (sh) command execution
 
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.SH CALLING SEQUENCE
 
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.nf
 
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stat=host(command-name)
 
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.fi
 
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.SH PARAMETERS
 
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.TP 15
 
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command-name
 
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: A character string containing Unix sh instruction
 
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.TP
 
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stat
 
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: An integer flag
 
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.SH DESCRIPTION
 
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Sends a string \fVcommand-name\fR to Unix for execution by the sh
 
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shell. Standard output and standard errors of the shell command are
 
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written in the calling shell.
 
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\fVstat\fR gives -1 if host can't be called (Not enough system memory
 
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available) or the sh return code.
 
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.SH EXAMPLE
 
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.nf
 
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host("ls $SCI/demos");
 
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host("emacs $SCI/demos/wheel2/Makefile");
 
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deff('wd=getdir()','if MSDOS then host(''cd>''+TMPDIR+''\\path'');..
 
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                 else host(''pwd>''+TMPDIR+''/path'');end..
 
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      wd=read(TMPDIR+''/path'',1,1,''(a)'')')
 
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wd=getdir()
 
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.fi
 
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.SH SEE ALSO
 
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edit, manedit, unix_g, unix_s, unix_w, unix_x