Edit file in existing Matlab from shell

I was wondering if there might be a way to open a m-file for editing in an existing matlab session from the linux command line?

[Andreas Goser]

I am not an Linux expert, but still enough knowledgebale to ask why one wants to open the file in the MATLAB editor of an already open MATLAB session through another way than in MATLAB itself?

[Daniel Shub]

Some projects I work on involve MATLAB only to a small extent. I could imagine wanting a shell script that would "switch" to one of these projects. Some of the things I might want to do is open some tex files, open some pdfs for reading, some vector graphics for editing, and some MATLAB files.

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

The MATLAB editor is programmable from MATLAB (see Yair's blog). I think you would need to setup a socket to control MATLAB from the Linux CLI. The simplest might be to create a timer object in MATLAB that reads a file to see what files should be open in the editor. You could then echo filenames into that file from the Linux CLI. Or you could just use emacs.