Matlab filesystem matlab.io.filesystem

January 2, 2025

Matlab cross-platform capabilities involve cross-platform factors dealing with filesystem and system calls. The standard library for Matlab matlab-stdlib provides several features on top of factory Matlab. Filesystem functions including canonicalized paths, finding executable programs, and retrieving filesystem type are among key capabilities of Matlab-stdlib.

Matlab R2025a makes public the internal functionality introduced in Matlab R2024b. The filePermissions function returns an object like matlab.io.UnixPermissions according to the operating platform.

As this functionality and classes are officially released, Matlab-stdlib is planned to incorporate them for new-enough Matlab releases, while continuing to work for older Matlab releases–currently back to R2019b.