How to save a figure in MATLAB from the command line?

Question

Is there a command in MATLAB which allows saving a figure in FIG or JPEG or both formats automatically?

Answer 1

These days (May 2017), MATLAB still suffer from a robust method to export figures, especially in GNU/Linux systems when exporting figures in batch mode. The best option is to use the extension export_fig

Just download the source code from Github and use it:

plot(cos(linspace(0, 7, 1000)));
set(gcf, 'Position', [100 100 150 150]);
export_fig test2.png