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Asked: 2026-05-20T04:31:09+00:00

I would like to search for a specific command I’ve previously used. Is it

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I would like to search for a specific command I’ve previously used. Is it possible to do a free text search on MATLAB command history?

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    If you want to accomplish this in a programmatic and platform-independent manner, you can first use MATLAB’s Java internals to get the command history as a character array:

    history = com.mathworks.mlservices.MLCommandHistoryServices.getSessionHistory;
historyText = char(history);

    Then you can search through the character array however you like, using functions like STRFIND or REGEXP. You can also turn the character array into a cell array of strings (one line per cell) with the function CELLSTR, since they can sometimes be easier to work with.

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