General Purpose Commands

General purpose commands

simulink

Opens Simulink library browser. Simulink is used for modeling and simulation of a system and has various inbuilt blocks and functions

demos

Demonstrates about the capabilities of MATLAB. Inbuilt demos can be run for better understanding

ver

Gives information about MATLAB, Simulink version

clc

Clears the command windows

clf

Clears the current figure

clear all

Removes all functions, variables, and global variables from the MATLAB

quit

Exits MATLAB

who

Lists the variables currently in the memory

inmem

Lists the functions in MATLAB memory

java

Uses JAVA within MATLAB environment

recycle

Moves deleted files to recycle bin

pack

Saves all variables on the disk after clearing the memory and the reloads the variables

%

Writes comments as MATLAB ignores whatever is written after this symbol