Windows Bash/WSL System Calls

Hello,

Windows 10 has a bash environment based on Trusty Ubuntu (14.04). In the windows command prompt, you can call bash commands like this:

bash -c "lsb_release -a"

I expected that a Matlab

system('bash -c "lsb_release -a"')

or

dos('bash -c "lsb_release -a"')

call or ! bash -c "lsb_release -a" would show the same behavior. However, it does not. I receive an Eans=-1 return. Why is this? Is there a way around it? Running r2012a.

Answer 1

[David Crist]

This is a problem for me as well. The problem with relying on

!bash -c ls /a/path/variable/

Is that you can't use the ! syntax with variables. I'm surprised there isn't a proper fix or response to this.

Also, the below is invalid matlab:

[status,output] = !bash -c ls

Answer 2

[Mahsa Ghasemi]

Hi,

One way of calling bash inside MATLAB on a Windows 10 platform is to use "!", e.g.,

!bash bashScript.sh

This link might also help: Run External Commands, Scripts, and Programs