About Adding Lines to Your startup.m file

I'm trying to add specific lines to my startup.m file to install a specific toolbox using MATLAB. However, I'm not able to find any startup.m file.

How can I add lines to my startup.m file? I'm a Mac user.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

The startup.m file is not a file that ships with Matlab. It needs to be created by you. You can put it anywhere in your permanent Matlab path. By permanent, I mean folders that are automatically in your path when Matlab is launched. You can use savepath() or pathtool() to make a particular folder permanent.

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

See the documentation on startup

I believe that it now has to be in (Windows machines):

C:\Users\<UserNAme>\Documents\MATLAB\startup.m

It cannot be in any of the subfolders, at least in my experience. Probably something similar in Mac.

At one time, it was necessary to add all the user-created subdirectories to the MATLAB path, so my startup.m file (that I created originally about 20 years ago and have modified a few times since) does that as well.