Use a string to call commands in Octave

Question

Suppose I define

Octave:1>s = "hello";
Octave:2>mkdir s
Octave:3>cd s

This creates a directory named s (instead of hello), and changes to that directory. How to use hello instead?

Tasos Papastylianou · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-17 07:47:58Z

3

mkdir(s)
cd(s)

Take a look at functional vs command syntax: https://octave.org/doc/v5.2.0/Commands.html

answered May 17, 2020 at 7:47

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Archisman Panigrahi Over a year ago

Just asking, did you already know this from experience, or did you find it in the docs? The docs contain everything, but I often cannot find the relevant doc because I don't know which section to look at.

Tasos Papastylianou Over a year ago

Hi @ArchismanPanigrahi, you can easily search within the docs from duckduckgo or google by prepending "site:" and the url you want to search from in the query. E.g. search for commands site:octave.org/doc/v5.2.0/ in duckduckgo to see what results come out!

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