Run Matlab in Linux without graphical environment?

Question

I am going to run a Matlab program in a remote Linux server using SSH. I was wondering how to run Matlab in Linux with only command line, which means there is no graphical envir

Answer 1

Putting the other answers together plus some more error handling, save the following as an executable file matlab-headless:

#/usr/bin/env bash

# restore the "sane" state of the terminal at the end
# otherwise interrupting the process may leave the terminal messed up
trap 'stty sane' EXIT
command="try, $1;, catch e, stack=getReport(e); fprintf(1, '%s\n', stack);, end, exit;"

# tail gets rid of the welcome message banner
matlab -nodisplay -nodesktop -nosplash -r "$command" | tail -n +11

Now you can run a Matlab command as:

matlab-headless "somecommand('bla', 42)"