Re: Matlab incompatibility: cd and which

[John W. Eaton]

On 10/14/2013 07:51 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:16 AM, c. <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 14 Oct 2013, at 03:31, Michael Goffioul
>     <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>      > 2) "cd" without argument changes to home dir, while in Matlab it
>     simply returns the current directory.
>
>     this has been discussed before, it was decided to follow the more
>     consistent
>     bash behaviour of cd rather than the strange behaviour chosen by Matlab.
>
>
> I figured this must have been discussed before, I just didn't remember
> it. I just happened to bump into a toolbox that uses of handful of
> "cd()" to retrieve the current directory, leading to unexpected behavior
> on octave.

Is it doing

  x = cd

?  In that case, Octave should be returning the current directory and 
not changing it.

If it is not doing that, then what do you mean by "retrieve"?  It's just 
doing

  cd

to display the current directory?

jwe