finder

opens a file explorer window from the matlab command line
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Updated 22 Nov 2018

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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 OSX

Cite As

Christopher Pedersen (2024). finder (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/37563-finder), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2018b
Compatible with R2012b and later releases
Platform Compatibility
Windows macOS Linux
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Acknowledgements

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

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Version Published Release Notes
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