The module "mastrave" of the Mastrave modelling library

Copyright and license notice of the function mastrave

Copyright © 2009,2010,2011,2012 Daniele de Rigo

The file mastrave.m is part of Mastrave.

Mastrave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Mastrave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Mastrave. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Function declaration

 [ answer, status ] = mastrave( varargin )

Description

Binder for the Mastrave/sh manager utility. The Mastrave/sh library is the GNU Bash based part of the Mastrave project. It is a collection of bash utilities aiming to ease the adoption of an abstract and vectorized approach to the GNU command line. Mastrave/sh does not attempt to replicate the main set of Mastrave utilities for GNU Octave and MATLAB computing environments, since the Bash shell is pretty different from them. Despite Bash scripting should not be intended as an array programming language, it natively allows array operations on variables and files. Mastrave/sh provides a set of tools which strengthen the vectorizability of Bash programs while allowing a more abstract access to low-level features.

This function allows directly accessing the Mastrave/sh manager. The updated version of options and arguments it is able to manage can be read by typing the command:

mastrave --help

Input arguments

Example of usage

   % Invoking as standalone a Mastrave/sh sub-function
   % (Creating a temporary writable directory)
   tmp = mastrave( 'tmp_dir', '--create' )

   % Invoking a Mastrave/sh command
   % Equivalent in GNU Octave/MATLAB of the Bash version:
   %    echo '10 60 20 80 30 20' | tr ' ' '\n' | mastrave msort -i "\$tmp"/idx
   mastrave( '-', [10 60 20 80 30 20].', 'msort', '-i', [ tmp '/idx'] )
   fileread( [ tmp '/idx'] ).'
  
   % (Removing the temporary directory along with its content)
   mastrave( 'tmp_dir', '--remove', tmp )

See also:
   mbash



Keywords:
   Bash, binder



Version: 0.1.11

Support

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