[scilab-Users] opening files with unknown names

[allan.cornet at scilab.org]

Hi,

> Another way is to use the find command under every decent UNIX (you
> can probably use this under windows with something like cygwin):
> [rep, stat] = unix_g("find . -iname *.txt")


I advice  to not use system functions to do this, because your code 
will be platform dependants

see

http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.3.3/en_US/ls.html
http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.3.3/en_US/grep.html

Allan