Re: Matlab incompatibility: cd and which

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:16 AM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

On 14 Oct 2013, at 03:31, Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2) "cd" without argument changes to home dir, while in Matlab it simply returns the current directory.

this has been discussed before, it was decided to follow the more consistent
bash behaviour of cd rather than the strange behaviour chosen by Matlab.

I figured this must have been discussed before, I just didn't remember it. I just happened to bump into a toolbox that uses of handful of "cd()" to retrieve the current directory, leading to unexpected behavior on octave.

Note that the "cd()" behavior in Matlab is consistent with the CD command in a windows command prompt. I suppose it's where this inconsistent-under-unix behavior is coming from.

Michael.