[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47359] fileattrib wildcard/globbing characters handling

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #47359 (project octave):

Documentation on the Windows XP attrib command is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/attrib.mspx.
 There is a '/s' option which selects recursive descent and a '/d' option
which includes directories in the recursive descent.

It may be that Matlab has not really coded their own fileattrib command, but
simply call out to the Windows shell to do the work for them.  If so, this
would be undocumented Matlab behavior that Octave is unlikely to copy.

At least on a *Nix system the obvious way to solve the original problem would
be


[status, list] = unix ("find *");


On Windows, you could try something like


[status, list] = dos ("dir * /b /s /d");




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