MATLAB: How to use the Find Files tool to simultaneously modify all text occurences across a number of MATLAB files in MATLAB

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I am using the Find Files tool to locate occurences of a certain function call myfunc() in group of MATLAB files. I start the Find Files tool from the MATLAB Desktop by selecting Edit->Find Files. I am able to locate all calls to myfunc(x), and would like to replace these calls with myfunc(y) without having to go through each file listing and modifying it manually.

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The ability to simultaneously replace multiple occurences of a statement in different files from the Find Files tool is not available for MATLAB.

To work around this issue, you will need to modify each listing manually by double-clicking on the file name from within the Find Files tool followed by making the modifications from within the file itself.

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MATLAB: How to make ‘Find Files’ return file names only once in MATLAB 7.9 (R2009b)

By default, the Find Files feature performs a simple LS command on the underlying directory structure.

To return file names that contain the text only once, you can call command-line shell tools like GREP on Unix-based operating systems. Then, you can use the UNIQUE function in MATLAB, with the 'first' parameter argument, on the string array returned by GREP to satisfy this requirement.

For more information, please take a look at the system documentation for GREP on Unix machines, or consider using a third-party tool like Windows Grep (see below) on Windows machines:

 <http://www.wingrep.com/>

MATLAB: How to write a function with two kind of output modes

Write the first line as:

function [y,z] = myfunc()

If you only request one output, only the first output is returned by default.

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