User-defined startup script for MATLAB
startup
executes user-specified commands when starting.
Create a startup.m
file in the userpath
folder,
which is on the MATLAB® search path. Add commands you want executed at startup. For example, your
startup
function might include physical constants, defaults for
graphics properties, engineering conversion factors, or anything else you want predefined in
your workspace.
To specify the current folder in MATLAB when it starts, set the Initial working folder preference, described in General Preferences.
At startup, MATLAB automatically executes the matlabrc
function and, if it
exists on the MATLAB search path, startup
. The matlabrc
file,
which is in the matlabroot
/toolbox/local
folder,
is reserved for use by MathWorks® and by system administrators on multiuser systems.