unable to exit matlab program

In the MATLAB command window, I typed "exit", trying to quit the MATLAB program. But I can't. I got an error message like:

>> exit

Exiting MATLAB ...

Error using csvwrite (line 47)

Cannot open file c:\Users\Public\Documents\matlabusage\finishindicator.csv.

Error in usagelog (line 54)

csvwrite([localpath '\finishindicator.csv'],[1 2 3]);

Error in finish (line 37)

usagelog('finish');

It looks like a script is called when leaving the MATLAB command window. I don't know how to find it out and change/disable it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

When you quit() or exit() then finish is automatically run https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/quit.html and https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/finish.html

Use

which finish

to locate the user script that is being invoked.

In the meantime, you could

mkdir('c:\Users\Public\Documents\matlabusage')

to create the directory so that the usage information could be written into it. (usagelog is not something provided by Mathworks, by the way.)