If your matlab version is too old to support the function
datetime
you could use following lines to print date and time
c = fix(clock);
time = date;
dateANDtime = sprintf('%s-%i:%i:%.0f', time, c(4),c(5),c(6));dateANDtime e.g. 15-Mar-2015-21:29:46
If you need to read in a hdf5 file (.h5) in matlab, use the function h5read.
The syntax is
data = h5read(filename,datasetname);
The "filename" is obvious, e.g. /the/path/to/the/file/name.h5. The "datasetname" can be found by using the tool hdfview or by using the linux terminal tool h5ls
installation:
In matlab, if you want to process all files in folder and the files have rather different file names you can use following code snippet in Unix environments, like linux
If you want to start a matlab script from terminal (in linux or mac), you can use following command
matlab -nojvm -nodisplay -nosplash -r "addpath ('/path/to/script'), test_script(imgSize,'savepath'), exit"Then matlab starts, executes the script and exits again.
test_script looks something like
function test_script(j,savepath)
img = rand(imgSize,imgSize);
imwrite(img, sprintf('%s/myTestImg.png',savepath),'png');
return
If you want to run a matlab script, that shows figures, on a remote machine without using ssh -X, start matlab with
matlab -nodesktop
and write following line in the matlab terminal, before starting your .m script
set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off');
That prevents figures to pop up. To set the visibility on 'on', use
set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','on');
Sometimes you don't want to display figures or plots within matlab, e.g. if running matlab with the -nodesktop flag on a remote machine, e.g.
matlab -nodesktop
Include following lines in your code or paste it in the matlab command window to disable the figures:
set(0,'DefaultFigureVisible','off');
Sometimes it is also good to include
In Matlab saving a figure as a pdf results in a rather bad quality. It is better to save the figure as .eps and convert it to .pdf, e.g. in Linux via the terminal tool
epstopdf File.eps
NOTE, especially if the .eps file is in landscape orientation, the terminal tool ps2pdf does not work properly and cuts off pdfs in portrait orientation.