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 ~/octavechanges 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 forcd
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.
List directory contents. For example:
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.mThe
dir
andls
commands are implemented by calling your system's directory listing command, so the available options will vary from system to system.Filenames are subject to shell expansion if they contain any wildcard characters ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘[]’. If you want to find a literal example of a wildcard character you must escape it using the backslash operator ‘\’.
See also: dir, readdir, glob, what, stat, filesep, ls_command.
Query or set the shell command used by Octave's
ls
command.See also: ls.
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 ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘[]’. If you want to find a literal example of a wildcard character you must escape it 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.