Suppose that;
I have an m-file at location:
C:\M1\M2\M3\mfile.m
And exe file of the matlab is at this location:
C:\E1\E2\E3\matlab.exe
I want to run this m-file with Matlab, from command-line, for example inside a .bat file. How can I do this, is there a way to do it?
Since R2019b, there is a new command line option, -batch. It replaces -r, which is no longer recommended. It also unifies the syntax across platforms. See for example the documentation for Windows, for the other platforms the description is identical.
matlab -batch "statement to run"
This starts MATLAB without the desktop or splash screen, logs all output to stdout and stderr, exits automatically when the statement completes, and provides an exit code reporting success or error.
It is thus no longer necessary to use try/catch around the code to run, and it is no longer necessary to add an exit statement.
I run this command within a bash script, in particular to submit SGE jobs and batch process things:
/Path_to_matlab -nodisplay -nosplash -nodesktop < m_file.m
Since none of the answers has information about feeding input argument, it is important to add it here. After some research, I found this link
Feeding the arguments is very similar to how we run a Matlab function.
matlab -r 'try myfunction(argument1,argument2); catch; end; quit'
If you are somehow getting an argument from bash/terminal, you simply need to insert that into the bash command as:
matlab -r 'try myfunction($MY_BASH_ARG,argument2); catch; end; quit'
(This is after a couple of trial and error)