Change shell used by matlab

I somehow run into a situation that a copyfile() is done through by my default $SHELL, which is /usr/local/bin/fish, which is out of the scope of the authors assumption, and the execution chokes on:

    Error using copyfile
    fish: Unknown command ' -r -p -f /Applications/MATLAB_R2016b.app/toolbox/matlab/guide/guitemplates/guidetemplate0.fig

I tried to

setenv SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash

but that doesn't work.

I dug through several docs on startup.m but none of them mentioned how can I specify another shell.

Hints?

[Walter Roberson]

Is there a space or shell metacharacter in the filename you are copying from?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

"On UNIX, MATLAB uses a shell program to execute the given command. It determines which shell program to use by checking environment variables on your system. MATLAB first checks the MATLAB_SHELL variable, and if either empty or not defined, then checks SHELL. If SHELL is also empty or not defined, MATLAB uses /bin/sh."

Answer 2

[Quan Zhou]

Thanks!

I used

launchctl setenv MATLAB_SHELL /bin/bash

and it all works fine now!