/bin/bash: stp: command not found

I'm having sort of a strange issue with MATLAB suddenly not finding files in my bash's path. From a normal bash terminal, I can type "stp" and it opens a program, because it's within bash's $PATH variable. But now suddenly, MATLAB no longer finds the command (it worked before). I even tried making sure it is in MATLAB's "path" (when I type path the folder it resides in is there), so I'm not really sure which side I should be hitting this issue from.

It used to be from the MATLAB terminal I could type "stp" and it would run the program like if I typed that at terminal, but now it seems to have trouble recognizing it. Any ideas how this might have changed? My code runs the command through like so, which allows for it to tell STP to do some specific commands that I outline in tfile before calling it.

scmd = sprintf('stp < ''%s''', tfile);
[status, cmdoutput] = system(scmd)

So suddenly this doesn't work anymore.

[Aaron Anderson]

It appears that when I type !echo $PATH, it isn't loading the .bashrc file (which adds stp to bash's $PATH). I guess I sort of had assumed it would do that because it uses the bash terminal. So this is probably why it's doing this. Although I never had to do this before, which is somewhat strange.

Answer 1

[Aaron Anderson]

I found the answer in an old newsgroup post. What I did was go to my MATLAB directory and under

/MATLAB/R2016b/bin/

I found a file called "matlab" to which I added a line at the top

export PATH=$PATH:desired/path/to/program

This appears to have fixed the issue.

[Dedong Wang]

But I find it is a read only file and I cannot add that line at the top of that file.