filehound

The M script filehound.m recursively searches directories for files matching a file filter.

Description

The M script filehound.m recursively searches directories for files matching a file filter (e.g. '*.m') and produces a list of type cell array with all pathnames for files that match the filter. It also produces a text file with the same information. This filename is chosen with the uiputfile utility.

The list could be used to examine the contents of each file:

  filelist = filehound;
  for i=1:length(filelist)
    fid = fopen(filelist{i}, 'r')
    A = fread(fid.....
    ......
  end

The directory names are filtered for spaces and quote characters to prevent errors in Unix environments.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; Improved file hounding
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.0 (R12)

[Tobias Höffken]

This is the best tool for this purpose that I could find in the File Exchange. However I found that it was doing too many things (writing a report, recursively searching the subdirectories) that were not welcome and that I deactivated.

[haroon muhm]

nice