changing directory in matlab
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does anyone know how to change matlab directory? for example now current directory is f:\a\b\c and i want to change to f:\a but without telling f:\ . in other words, only with giving 'a' (the name of folder) and without telling f:\ , MATLAB itself find f:\a. does anyone know how can i use this: in this link: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/12002-jump there is a m-file for changing MATLAB current directory to the folder matching the specified pattern. But i cant use this. what can i do ?
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Ahmed Aisa
on 15 Dec 2016
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Daniel Shub
on 31 Aug 2011
What about something like:
x = pwd;
drive = x(1:3);
cd([drive, 'a']);
or
cd([drive, 'a\b']);
This will work assuming you are currently in drive "f" and want to stay in drive "f". You could also change to drive "f" and then do:
x = pwd;
drive = x(1:3);
jump = @(newpath)cd([drive, newpath]);
jump('a');
and
jump('a\b');
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Daniel Shub
on 31 Aug 2011
Can you add the three lines to the beginning of your mfile? If your mfile is a script you can execute the three lines beforehand. If your mfile is a function you can pass it the function handle "jump", but this will still require you to edit you mfile.
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Friedrich
on 31 Aug 2011
Hi,
I think this m file won't help much here since it uses the which commands to search for files with a specific name and which are on the MATLAB path only.
Are your folders, where you like to jump to, on the MATLAB path? If so, you could parse the MATLAB path for it and jump to it.
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