MATLAB System Command "Press Enter to Exit"
I am trying to write a MATLAB script that will call and run an external program, and then continue with other MATLAB commands.
tic %Start stopwatch
system('MyProgram.exe') %Call and run my program
toc %End stopwatch
However, this program "MyProgram.exe" requires me to "Press Enter to exit". How do I make my MATLAB script pass "Enter" a continuation? How do I pass "Enter" as input to my program at the end of execution? Or how to do it at all?
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On UNIX, you can use
system('MyProgram < /dev/null').
as stated in Matlab documentation :
To disable stdin and type-forward redirection, include formatted text
< /dev/null
in the invocation of the command being invoked.
Windows equivalent (based on this post ):
system('MyProgram.exe < NUL')
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When a console program needs to take one time from the user, and there is no built-in way to do this (like passing it as an argument), that input can be echo
ed and passed to the program.This can also be used to press Enter (again, once) by shim empty line.
echo.|program.exe
While the traditional empty string is generated by using echo
a command echo.
, this can fail if the current directory contains a file named echo that has no extension. To get around this, you can use (
instead .
.
echo(|program.exe
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