MATLAB: Sending ascii characters through system or dos command

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I'd like to send a system command to obtain the commit of a git tag, I'm trying to do this using the git rev-parse functionality: 
cmd = 'git rev-parse v1.3^{}'
[resp,cmdOut] = system(cmd)
Gives me the response: 
resp =
   128
cmdOut =
    'v1.3{}
     fatal: ambiguous argument 'v1.3{}': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
     Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
     'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
     '
The ^ character does not arrive in the shell. I tested this by: 
cmd = 'echo git rev-parse v1.3^{}'
[resp,cmdOut] = system(cmd)
which gives me
resp =
     0
cmdOut =
    'git rev-parse v1.3{}
     '
I'm on a windows computer. I tried the same yesterday in octave online (https://octave-online.net/) which does give me the expected respone. I do think that octave online runs linux though.

Best Answer

Hmmm, maybe
cmd = 'echo git rev-parse v1.3^^{}'
(I am not using Windows so I cannot easily test myself.)
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