Question
I have a number of commands appearing in my Command History window, which I would like to extract for other uses.
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Neeta Dsouza
PhD Expert
Answered Aug 25, 2026
Prior to MATLAB R2014a the "history.m" file in the preference directory stores all the commands from the command history. Starting with MATLAB R2014a the commands are stored in an XML file history.xml in the preference directory. The location of the directory can be found by executing the following on
MATLAB command prompt.
>>prefdir
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