Re: Matlab incompatibility: cd and which

[Markus]

Am 2013-10-14 03:31, schrieb Michael Goffioul:
> I noticed these 2 incompatibilities:
>
> 1) "which ... -all" is supposed to return a cell array of string, but
> does not.
>
> 2) "cd" without argument changes to home dir, while in Matlab it
> simply returns the current directory.

I've noticed this a long time ago too. But because this is obviously a 
bug in Matlab (in this case "cd" has the same functionality as "pwd". 
ChangeDir should change the directory and don't name the location where 
you are), i won't care about it.


> > cd /tmp
> > pwd

ans =

/tmp

> > cd

/tmp

> > s=pwd

s =

/tmp

> > s=cd

s =

/tmp

> > cd ~ % imho, this can/should be used if you want to write compatible 
> > code for matlab and octave
> > pwd

ans =

/home/markus


cheers
markus