How to generate all paths or directories that are actually used by a script?

Sometimes the paths contains more than necessary directories for my script.

It is very tedious to get exact which function/script is from which path.

Now I want to run a script, and let Matlab record all the directories it ever visisted/referred in its path, and show it to me so I can simplify the path setting.

Will this be something alreay existed in Matlab?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Pranav Verma]

Hi Jiansong,

Please refer to dbstack functionality. You can see the location of the functions by setting breakpoints at those functions. Use the "-completenames" option to get the full path of the functions. Below is the snippet from the documentation:

It should help in getting the path to which a function belongs.

Thanks

[jiansong wan]

Hi Pranav,

This dbstack doesn't seem to help.

as an example, I have a script(A), not even a function, it calls a few other scripts and functions(B) while excuting. How do I know which path was used during excuting script(A)?

In the 'set path' UI, I added a lot of folders, inherenting from colleagues's setups. And I'm sure there are a lot of path overlapping each other. My goal is simplifing/reducing the paths to its minimum. If Matlab can keep a actual path record when excuting script(A), then I can just use that record in 'set path'.

Would this be possible?

Thanks!