Matlab command history question

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Hossein
Hossein on 17 Jul 2015
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 17 Jul 2015
Hi everyone,
is there any way to recall a command of a long time ago fast and without searching back day by day or is there any log file which saves the command history externally in R2014a?
many thanks in advance

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Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 17 Jul 2015
Search it directly!
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Hossein
Hossein on 17 Jul 2015
it's not possible what I need belongs to nearly one year ago and I can not find it anymore in my command history directly!
Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 17 Jul 2015
Then it's probably gone. The XML file that holds the command history only holds X number of lines where X is set in the preferences.

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Bjorn Gustavsson
Bjorn Gustavsson on 17 Jul 2015
To make things like such searches possible I have this in my startup.m-file:
filename = fullfile('/home','bjorn','matlabruns',[datestr(clock,30) '.txt']);
diary(filename)
That saves all commandline-input/output in one file for each matlab session. Then I can search for commands and snippets from any-time ago. I find this a very helpful trick - that I learnt by someone very cunning.
HTH - in the future at least
Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 17 Jul 2015
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 17 Jul 2015
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/97504-how-can-i-access-the-saved-command-history-in-matlab
You can find the file history.xml in prefdir
fid=fopen(fullfile(prefdir,'history.xml'))
a=textscan(fid,'%s','delimiter','\n')
fclose(fid)
text=a{:}

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