Macos – Running MATLAB from Mac OSX terminal

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I'd love to run matlab from the terminal on my Macbook (running Lion), forgoing the standalone matlab interface. All the information I've found online suggests that the command is simply something along the lines of

$ matlab

followed by various tags (-nojvm, -nodesktop, -nosplash, etc.). When I run this from the terminal, I get

Js-MacBook-Pro:~ joehuchette$ matlab -nodesktop
-bash: matlab: command not found

I'm pretty inexperienced with this sort of thing, so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Best Answer

Alternatively, put a symbolic link to the Matlab binary in your path:

sudo ln -s /Applications/MATLAB_RXXXx.app/bin/matlab /usr/local/bin

where XXXXx is the Matlab version.

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First thing you should do is change the shell, this way you can set a shell that will not load the bash init-scripts (.bashrc, .bash_profile) - how to do this for the Mac OS X terminal app can be seen here: Apple Support

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