Re: unziping and moving files

["James P. Howard, II" <jh@jameshoward.us>]

On 5/27/07, Eric yang <yang_eric9@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm using S+ on Windows XP (32 bit) and would like to
> automate something that I do repeatedly before running
> my S+ code. I have numerous files that I have to unzip
> and move to specific folders that have to be created.
> The folders can be created in my S+ code using mkdir()
> but unziping the files and moving them to the
> appropriate folders is currently a manual task. Is
> there a way to automate this within S+, so that the
> whole task can be completely automated?
You can use the shell() function to send commands to the command line
for exectution.  For the unzipping, this will require a command line
aware unzipper, such as 7zip[1], which is freely available.  Moving
the folders can be accomplished as normal with the command line.

James

1.  http://www.7-zip.org

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