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36 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.

• Timing Utilities
• Filesystem Utilities
• File Archiving Utilities
• Networking Utilities
• Controlling Subprocesses
• Process, Group, and User IDs
• Environment Variables
• Current Working Directory
• Password Database Functions
• Group Database Functions
• System Information
• Hashing Functions