MATLAB: Run a script for all subfolders

folderlooprun scripttxt file

I have a script and I want to rut it for a folder. I should say that the folder has subfolders. The folder structure is like below:

'rocording\myproject\020320 (it is a date)\XYdata'

the first two folders are same but I have many folders for third subfolder (different dates) and one 'XYdata' folder inside each date folder.

I want to run my script for the text files inside the XYdata subfolders.

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You can use the asterisk (*) as wildcard to generate a file pattern and the dir command to get a struct of all the matching files. Assuming we are in the directory where the rocording folder is located and your data are mat-files:

file_pattern = './rocording/myproject/*/xydata/*.mat';
data_dir = dir(file_pattern);
data_locations = fullfile({data_dir.folder}, {data_dir.name})

Then you can use fullfile to obtain a cell array of file locations. Now you can loop over this cell or use cellfun to do stuff with all the data.

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foldername = 'deleteme'
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MATLAB: Rename files from subfolders

Get all files structure to one variable

cd <your directory>
d = dir('**/*.bmp')

Apply loop to get every file to structure

filename_full = fullfile(d(loop variable).folder, d(loop variable).name);
[~, filename, ext] = fileparts(filename_full);

check file names use ifelse condition

if strcmp(filename, '1');
    filename = '9'  % so to all other 3 files
end

concatanate all string to form renamed path

filename_full_ren = fullfile(d(loop variable).folder,[filename, ext]);

then rename file by moving

movefile(filename_full, filename_full_ren);

You are done

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