Matlab command history question

Hi everyone,

is there any way to recall a command of a long time ago fast and without searching back day by day or is there any log file which saves the command history externally in R2014a?

many thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Search it directly!

[Hossein]

it's not possible what I need belongs to nearly one year ago and I can not find it anymore in my command history directly!

[Sean de Wolski]

Then it's probably gone. The XML file that holds the command history only holds X number of lines where X is set in the preferences.

Answer 2

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

To make things like such searches possible I have this in my startup.m-file:

filename = fullfile('/home','bjorn','matlabruns',[datestr(clock,30) '.txt']);
diary(filename)

That saves all commandline-input/output in one file for each matlab session. Then I can search for commands and snippets from any-time ago. I find this a very helpful trick - that I learnt by someone very cunning.

HTH - in the future at least

Answer 3

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/97504-how-can-i-access-the-saved-command-history-in-matlab

You can find the file history.xml in prefdir

fid=fopen(fullfile(prefdir,'history.xml'))
a=textscan(fid,'%s','delimiter','\n')
fclose(fid)
text=a{:}