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Re: Calling a MS-DOS command

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  • Subject: [mg56898] Re: [mg56868] Calling a MS-DOS command
  • From: yehuda ben-shimol <bsyehuda at gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 01:46:42 -0400 (EDT)
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  • Reply-to: yehuda ben-shimol <bsyehuda at gmail.com>
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?For this two specific task you have 
DeleteFile[] and CopyFile[]
functions.
In general 
!command will open a shell window, execute the command and close the
shell window
yehuda

On 5/8/05, Swati Shah <swatshah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to call some DOS commands from Mathematica like
> 
> delete ("tmp.txt")
> copy filea to fileb
> 
> Is this possible in Mathematica? I have been looking at the
> documentation but am not having a lot of luck.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>


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