How to interact with a bash script?

Thanks very much in advance for your help!

I want my matlab code to interact with a bash script. right now, i enter:

!sh scriptname.sh

and then the script loads and waits for a user response, and i can't go back to matlab without exiting the script. ideally, i want matlab to be able to interact with the script -- receive inputs from the script and send outputs to the script in a continual back-and-forth way, where each sort of waits for the other's response, then determines its own response and sends it back.

any ideas how this might be possible? thanks again!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

This is the flip side of the issue discussed in http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/12913-can-i-give-matlab-commands-in-series-from-the-os-command-prompt