How to change the default working folder ?

I'm running matlab R2017a on Debian 9, every time I start MATLAB it creates the ~/Documents/MATLAB folder and assumes that it is the main working folder. I would like the default folder to be ~/Documents/prog/matlab, how should I do that ?

Thank you !

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

Open MATLAB preferences: Click on the top bar or type preferences in a command window. Go to General > Initial working folder. Specify the required folder you want to have at MATLAB startup.

Answer 2

[ugor]

Thank you very much, it works. I just have to start MATLAB with

   %bash
matlab -useStartupFolderPref

but a simple alias do the job.