copyfile
copies a file
Syntax
copyfile(source, destination) copyfile(source, destination, mode) [status, errmsg] = copyfile(...)
Arguments
- source
a character string: a filename or a directory name.
- destination
a character string: a directory name.
- mode
character string: option to modify the way to copy.
"osdefault"(default) copy the file using default OS functions."preserve"preserve symbolic links instead of copying the file content."resolve"copy the file content.- status
double: 1 if the copy operation succeeded, 0 otherwise.
- errmsg
a character string: the error message if any, or an empty string if no error occurred.
Description
copyfile(source,destination) copies the file or
directory source (and subdirectories) to the file or
directory destination.
If source is a directory, destination can not be a file.
 | copyfile replaces existing files without warning. |
[status, errmsg] = copyfile(source, destination)
copies source to destination, returning the status and a errmsg.
Whatever the operating system, if the copy succeeds, the status is 1
and the errmsg is empty; if the copy fails, the status is 0 and the
errmsg is not empty.
Timestamps and symbolic links are preserved when using the "preserve" option.
| On Windows, symbolic links might require special privilege. |
Examples
copyfile(SCI+"/etc/scilab.start",TMPDIR+"/scilab.start") [status, msg] = copyfile(SCI+"/etc/scilab.start",TMPDIR);
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