octave: Current Working Directory
36.8 Current Working Directory
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-- : cd DIR
-- : cd
-- : OLD_DIR = cd (DIR)
-- : chdir ...
Change the current working directory to DIR.
If DIR is omitted, the current directory is changed to the user’s
home directory ("~").
For example,
cd ~/octave
changes the current working directory to ‘~/octave’. If the
directory does not exist, an error message is printed and the
working directory is not changed.
‘chdir’ is an alias for ‘cd’ and can be used in all of the same
calling formats.
Compatibility Note: When called with no arguments, MATLAB prints
the present working directory rather than changing to the user’s
home directory.
DONTPRINTYET See also: 
pwd XREFpwd, mkdir XREFmkdir, *notermdir:
DONTPRINTYET See also: pwd XREFpwd, mkdir XREFmkdir, rmdir
XREFrmdir, dir XREFdir, ls XREFls.
-- : ls
-- : ls FILENAMES
-- : ls OPTIONS
-- : ls OPTIONS FILENAMES
-- : LIST = ls (...)
List directory contents.
The ‘ls’ command is implemented by calling the native operating
system’s directory listing command—available OPTIONS will vary from
system to system.
Filenames are subject to shell expansion if they contain any
wildcard characters ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘[]’. To find a literal example of a
wildcard character the wildcard must be escaped using the backslash
operator ‘\’.
If the optional output LIST is requested then ‘ls’ returns a
character array with one row for each file/directory name.
Example usage on a UNIX-like system:
ls -l
⊣ total 12
⊣ -rw-r--r-- 1 jwe users 4488 Aug 19 04:02 foo.m
⊣ -rw-r--r-- 1 jwe users 1315 Aug 17 23:14 bar.m
DONTPRINTYET See also: dir XREFdir, readdir XREFreaddir, *noteDONTPRINTYET DONTPRINTYET See also: dir XREFdir, readdir XREFreaddir,
glob XREFglob, what XREFwhat, stat XREFstat, *noteDONTPRINTYET DONTPRINTYET See also: dir XREFdir, readdir XREFreaddir,
glob XREFglob, what XREFwhat, stat XREFstat,
filesep XREFfilesep, ls_command XREFls_command.
-- : VAL = ls_command ()
-- : OLD_VAL = ls_command (NEW_VAL)
Query or set the shell command used by Octave’s ‘ls’ command.
See also: ls XREFls.
-- : dir
-- : dir (DIRECTORY)
-- : [LIST] = dir (DIRECTORY)
Display file listing for directory DIRECTORY.
If DIRECTORY is not specified then list the present working
directory.
If a return value is requested, return a structure array with the
fields
name
File or directory name.
date
Timestamp of file modification (string value).
bytes
File size in bytes.
isdir
True if name is a directory.
datenum
Timestamp of file modification as serial date number (double).
statinfo
Information structure returned from ‘stat’.
If DIRECTORY is a filename, rather than a directory, then return
information about the named file. DIRECTORY may also be a list
rather than a single directory or file.
DIRECTORY is subject to shell expansion if it contains any wildcard
characters ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘[]’. To find a literal example of a wildcard
character the wildcard must be escaped using the backslash operator
‘\’.
Note that for symbolic links, ‘dir’ returns information about the
file that the symbolic link points to rather than the link itself.
However, if the link points to a nonexistent file, ‘dir’ returns
information about the link.
DONTPRINTYET See also: ls XREFls, readdir XREFreaddir, *noteglob:
DONTPRINTYET DONTPRINTYET See also: ls XREFls, readdir XREFreaddir, glob
XREFglob, what XREFwhat, stat XREFstat, *notelstat:
DONTPRINTYET DONTPRINTYET See also: ls XREFls, readdir XREFreaddir, glob
XREFglob, what XREFwhat, stat XREFstat, lstat
XREFlstat.
-- : pwd ()
-- : DIR = pwd ()
Return the current working directory.
See also: cd XREFcd, dir XREFdir, ls XREFls,
mkdir XREFmkdir, rmdir XREFrmdir.
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