Supress Command Line messages: system.m

I combine some text files into one big file:

system('copy 1.txt+2.txt+3.txt MyBigFat.txt')

This works fine, however it writes to the command line all the file names "1.txt 2.txt..." followed by "1 file(s) copied". As I am keeping a diary and also doing this operation a very large number of times, I do not wish to see the file copied message.

how can I prevent it being shown? Is there a way to supress output using system.m?

using 2013A and win7.

thanks

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Either capture the outputs:

 [st,rt] =  system('copy 1.txt+2.txt+3.txt MyBigFat.txt');

Or if that does not supress it, then use evalc to evaluate and capture output.

evalc('system(''copy 1.txt+2.txt+3.txt MyBigFat.txt'');');