Compressio​n/uncompre​ssion with bzip2/bunzip not working

Hello,

I am working on a mac os X 10.9.5 and using both Matlab 2013b and Matlab 2014b. When I try to use bunzip2 or bzip2 to compress of decompress files (for example unix('bunzip2 -dk filename'), an exit status 127 is returned to the command line. However, the files bunzip2 and bzip2 are present on my computer and I can use them via the terminal. Would you have an idea of where this error could come from? Thank you very much in advance for your help.

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Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

This is probably the same basic issue as http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/230535#answer_186650 except with respect to the PATH environment variable

[Beatrice]

Thank you for your answer! I am not very familiar with shell, so could you explain a little bit more please? Does this mean I should set the PATH environment in the .matlab7rc.sh file? I am using Matlab code from am open source software and don't want do modify it.

Answer 2

[Beatrice]

Unfortunately I still haven't been able to fix this problem... Any more help would be very welcome. Thank you!