explorer.m: Quick access to the Windows Explorer

Opens the Windows Explorer for a specified directory, optionally showing the folder hierarchy

Description

The Windows Explorer is opened in one of two modes: either in the "Explorer from here" mode with the Folder hierarchy visible and its root at the specified directory, or in its basic mode showing only the contents of the specified directory.

To open a directory listing for the current MATLAB® directory, type:
>> explorer

To open a listing for (e.g) directory C:\temp, type:
>> explorer C:\temp

>> To open a listing for the directory containing peaks.m (provided that peaks.m is on the MATLAB path) type:
>> explorer peaks

>> To also show the folder hierarchy inside that directory type:
>> explorer peaks 1
or
>> explorer('peaks',1)

etc.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)
• Other requirements: Tested on Windows XP, but should work in any Win32 environment. Works in MATLAB 7 and later. In earlier versions of MATLAB the main functionality will work but the error handling will not.

[Hyun Taik OH]

very convenient

[Alfian Abdul Halin]

Very2 convenient! Simple and straight forward to use! :)

[Adi Navve]

I found this after I have thought of creating one myself and indeed it is convenient.
I have a suggestion - include the switch "/select" in the command line to get: 1) the file or directory is selected for convenience. 2) you can call explorer.exe with a full file name path since the file would not be opened.
In addition, I added the switch "/e" also for the default case to open the windows explorer with its default view.
Thanks for the submission.