hi, i´m trying to open the cmd.exe in matlab and to execute the dos command from matlab without writing it again in cmd.exe. how can i do this?
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hi, i´m trying to open the cmd.exe in matlab and to execute the dos command from matlab without writing it again in cmd.exe. for exemple: system('cmd.exe'); dos_command = 'cd D:Erica\FASTPlanning\ '; dos(dos_command); matlab is openning cmd.exe and is waitig for a command in cmd.exe but i want matlab to execute the dos command automatically in cmd.exe
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Walter Roberson
on 23 Jul 2018
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 14 Aug 2020
If you need to start an independent process that stays alive while MATLAB continues then use .NET or Java
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Muhammad Zayed
on 14 Aug 2020
Edited: Muhammad Zayed
on 14 Aug 2020
you can use:
!cmd &
it works for me to open the command window from Matlab
Moreover, if you want to excute something in the cmd, you can do it as follows (in my case I want to run an excutable called "Opensees" then type the file name)
!Opensees fileName.tcl &
All the above commands will open and run the excutable in an external commond prompt window. If you wish to run it inside Matalb command window, just remove the "&" symbol at the end.
I hope this helps.
P.S. I am using MATLAB R2018a - academic version
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Walter Roberson
on 14 Aug 2020
My reading of the question was that the user wanted to be able to start a command shell and have it remain open waiting for commands to be sent to it from MATLAB. The way to do that from Windows is to use .NET assemblies as I linked to before.
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