dynare/matlab/parallel/dynareParallelDir.m

function dirlist = dynareParallelDir(filename,PRCDir,Parallel)
% PARALLEL CONTEXT
% In a parallel context, this is a specialized version of dir() function.
%
% INPUTS
%  o filename   []   ...
%  o PRCDir     []   ... 
%  o Parallel   []   ...  
%
%  OUTPUTS
%  o dirlist    []   ...  
%
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dirlist=[];
for indPC=1:length(Parallel),
    if ~ispc, %isunix || (~matlab_ver_less_than('7.4') && ismac),
        if Parallel(indPC).Local==0,
            [check, ax]=system(['ssh ',Parallel(indPC).UserName,'@',Parallel(indPC).ComputerName,' ls ',Parallel(indPC).RemoteDirectory,'/',PRCDir,'/',filename]);
            if check ~ 0;
                ax=[];
            end
        else
            try
                ax=ls(filename);
            catch
                ax=[];
            end
            
        end
        dirlist = [dirlist, ax];
    else
        if exist('OCTAVE_VERSION'), % patch for peculiar behaviour of ls under Windows 
            if Parallel(indPC).Local==0,
                ax0=dir(['\\',Parallel(indPC).ComputerName,'\',Parallel(indPC).RemoteDrive,'$\',Parallel(indPC).RemoteDirectory,'\',PRCDir,'\',filename]);
            else
                ax0=dir(filename);
            end
            if isempty(ax0),
                ax='';
            else
                for jax=1:length(ax0);
                    ax{jax}=ax0(jax).name;
                end
                ax=char(ax{:});
            end
            
        else
            if Parallel(indPC).Local==0,
                ax=ls(['\\',Parallel(indPC).ComputerName,'\',Parallel(indPC).RemoteDrive,'$\',Parallel(indPC).RemoteDirectory,'\',PRCDir,'\',filename]);
            else
                ax=ls(filename);
            end
        end
        dirlist = [dirlist; ax];
    end
end