How to create both accumulated and non-accumulated MatLab diary output

Question

Standard diary does not overwrite existing diary output. That's useful. I sometimes want to check my previous results.

But at the same time, when the output is large, it becomes hard to find where the result from the most-current execution starts.

So I wanted to have both files: One with most current output, another with all the accumulated results.

I did

diary result_accumulated.out

delete result.out
diary result.out

But result_accumulated.out is not being generated.

What should I do?

You can not write two diaries at once. MATLAB does not support that. — Daniel, Mar 03 '16 at 08:36
@Daniel Thank you! I think Randy's solution would work but do you know how to append result.out to result_accumulated.out ? — user42459, Mar 04 '16 at 05:54
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10219140/how-to-merge-two-files-into-one-text-file — Daniel, Mar 04 '16 at 23:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '16 at 23:37

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You can use

diary result.out
...
diary off

and then append result.out to result_accumulated.out

answered Mar 02 '16 at 23:37

Randy Flamini

@Randy_Flamini Thank you! But what codes should I write to append it? And where should I put those codes? – user42459 Mar 03 '16 at 05:11
To append: `system('copy /b file1 + file2 fileappended')` – Randy Flamini Mar 06 '16 at 01:28

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