'system': bug or misunderstanding?

[Doug Stewart]

clerke wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2008 22:29:01 John W. Eaton wrote:
>   
>> This is documented, though I suppose not very clearly.  I would
>> welcome a patch that improved the doc string.
>>     
>
> Is system.texi the right file for the patch?
>
> While looking at a patch for the description, I realized the actual behaviour 
> of system (at least in my case) differs significantly from the description.
> I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my system now...
>
> For example, the description says:
> "To send the output of a command executed with @var{system} through the 
> pager, use a command like
> disp (system (cmd, 1));"
>
> This doesn't work for me (because system, used like this, returns only the 
> exit status). Examples:
>
> octave:58> disp(system("ls", 1))
> 0
> octave:59> system("ls", 1)
> ans = 0
>
>   
On Ubuntu and Octave 3.0.0 I see the same as you.




> In all cases, to get the output returned to octave (rather than stdout) I need 
> to specify the second output arg. 
> Is this the way everyone else sees it?
>
> wayne
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