A wrapper shell script that executes a matlab script or command.

matlab.sh

#!/bin/sh

#
# Locate matlab binary executable file.
#
MATLAB=$(which matlab)

if [ -z ${MATLAB} ]; then
    if [ -n ${MATLAB_HOME} ]; then
        MATLAB=${MATLAB_HOME}/bin/matlab
    fi
fi

if [ -z ${MATLAB} ] || [ ! -f ${MATLAB} ]; then
    echo "Error: could not find matlab binary file." 1>&2
    exit 1
fi

#
# Initialize the stdout file of the matlab execution.
#

NOW=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
OUTPUT=$(mktemp /tmp/matlab.out.${NOW}.XXXXXX)
SENTINEL=${OUTPUT}

#
# Execute the matlab script/command specified in $@
#

${MATLAB} -nodisplay -nojvm -nosplash -r "$@"";disp('${SENTINEL}');exit;" </dev/null 2>&1 | tee ${OUTPUT} | grep -v ${SENTINEL}

#
# Check if the sentinal sign is included in the output.
# If sentinal sign is included, means the execution is completed successfully, exit with code 0.
# If sentinal sign is not included, means the execution is not incomplete, exit with code 1.

if [ -n $(tail -n 2 ${OUTPUT} | grep ${SENTINEL}) ]; then
    rm -f ${OUTPUT}
    exit 0
else
    echo "Error: matlab script/command failed to complete. See ${OUTPUT} for more detail." 1>&2
    exit 1
fi