cd command and !cd command give different path

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Italo Esposito
Italo Esposito on 8 May 2020
Answered: Rik on 8 May 2020
Hi,
I have a problem on Matlab regarding cd and !cd command.
On Matlab, I choose a working folder which is in the following path:
C:\Temp
Typing cd command, I got:
C:\Temp
while, typing !cd, I got:
C:\Users
Thanks for the support.

Answers (1)

Rik
Rik on 8 May 2020
Those are two different situations
  • cd runs the Matlab function cd and retrieves the current directory that Matlab is using
  • !cd starts a shell from your operating system and runs its cd command (so the Windows command cd in your case)
It isn't really obvious why those two would match. If you create a notepad.m function the results would be drastically different between notepad and !notepad.

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