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29. System Utilities

This chapter describes the functions that are available to allow you to get information about what is happening outside of Octave, while it is still running, and use this information in your program. For example, you can get information about environment variables, the current time, and even start other programs from the Octave prompt.

29.1 Timing Utilities
29.2 Filesystem Utilities
29.3 Controlling Subprocesses
29.4 Process, Group, and User IDs
29.5 Environment Variables
29.6 Current Working Directory
29.7 Password Database Functions
29.8 Group Database Functions
29.9 System Information