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## Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Søren Hauberg
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave 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.
##
## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{entries} =} tar (@var{tarfile}, @var{files})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{entries} =} tar (@var{tarfile}, @var{files}, @var{root})
## Pack @var{files} @var{files} into the TAR archive @var{tarfile}. The
## list of files must be a string or a cell array of strings.
##
## The optional argument @var{root} changes the relative path of @var{files}
## from the current directory.
##
## If an output argument is requested the entries in the archive are
## returned in a cell array.
## @seealso{untar, bzip2, gzip, zip}
## @end deftypefn
## Author: Søren Hauberg <hauberg@gmail.com>
function entries = tar (tarfile, files, root = ".")
if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
print_usage ();
endif
if (ischar (files))
files = cellstr (files);
endif
if (! (ischar (tarfile) && iscellstr (files) && ischar (root)))
error ("tar: all arguments must be character strings");
endif
cmd = sprintf ("tar cvf %s -C %s %s", tarfile, root,
sprintf (" %s", files{:}));
[status, output] = system (cmd);
if (status)
error ("tar: tar exited with status = %d", status);
endif
if (nargout > 0)
if (output(end) == "\n")
output(end) = [];
endif
entries = ostrsplit (output, "\n");
entries = entries';
endif
endfunction
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