Matlab program crashing while trying to run in background (by adding &)

hi all

a new user here. version: 2018b .OS: red hat Linux

i am trying to run a marlab program in background.

matlab -nodesktop -nosplash <script> output.txt &

it crashes but when i remove "&" it works fine.

any suggestions appreciated.

[Walter Roberson]

is there an error message ?

did you try redirecting stderr as well ?

Answer 1

[Sajan Mushini]

Yes, it was complaining about missing "END" statement. GUI version was able to run the same code. I commented out 'fclose all' in my code and it worked. Thanks for the prompt reply.