possible to use the terminal command in matlab script?

Dear Experts

I am working with matlab2020b installed on linux.

I have another comand using terminal.

Is it possible to use the terminal command in script of matlab2020b.

It will save my time.

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

You can use system(): https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/system.html. However, note that it does not use the same $PATH variable as your default shell. You will need to use setenv() to add another directory to $PATH variable.

[Amit Kumar]

It works for me.

Thank you

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

You can use I/O redirection.

However, if you need two-way interaction then you need a pipe. There is a popen() in the File Exchange, but it is only for undirectional I/O . So you would have to do something like create a named pipe and read and write from it.

Note: every time you switch between reading and writing on a single file descriptor, you need to fseek(). Even if you tell fseek() to move 0 bytes relative to the current position, that is enough: the fseek() is needed to set up the I/O buffers properly.