Disable plots in Matlab

Question

I have some programs written in Matlab that I need to run several times for some reasons (debugging, testing with different input, etc...)

But, there are a lot\'s of

Answer 1

You could run matlab from the command line with:

matlab -nojvm

but then you don't get the GUI at all. Alternatively, you could write a file 'plot.m':

function h = plot(varargin)
  h = [];
end

which doesn't do anything. If this is in the working directory (or somewhere else near the top of the path), then plot will call your function instead of the 'real' plot. You'd need to do the same from any other graphing functions you call.

The closest way I know of 'turning off plotting' would be a folder of such functions that you can add to the path to disable plotting, and remove to enable.