finder

Version 2025.03.26 (3.66 KB) by Christopher Pedersen
opens a file explorer window from the matlab command line
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Updated 26 Mar 2025

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finder(fol) opens a file explorer window at the desired folder
Based on "explorer" by Malcolm Wood, and expanded to work under Macintosh and UNIX

Cite As

Christopher Pedersen (2026). finder (https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/37563-finder), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2025a
Compatible with R2012b and later releases
Platform Compatibility
Windows macOS Linux
Categories
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Acknowledgements

Inspired by: explorer.m: Quick access to the Windows Explorer

Version Published Release Notes
2025.03.26

uses windows command "winopen" when available.

2025.03.25

Added unix support by calling xterm
2018.11.22

Fixed default behaviour for folder names being matched to subfolders, to comply with expected behaviour.
2018.11.21

Changed default behaviour: if input exists as a full path, goes to that preferentially, before seeing if it exists as a subfolder
1.1.0.0

Fixed bug : missing "fullpath" function
1.0.0.0