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Recursive directory walk with -exec (UNIX type)

by Ashish Uthama

 

29 Dec 2008 (Updated 10 May 2010)

Directory walking with input function handle called with each matching file found.

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Description

See decription of RDIR (linked in Acknowledgements) for wildcard use.

Calls a function handle for each matching file found.

  rdirExec(ROOT,EXECFUN,OPTEXECFUNARGS)

Recursive directory walk. EXECFUN is a function handle that gets called for each matching file found.The first input argument being the full path of the file, followed by the optional OPTEXECFUNARGS

ROOT is the directory starting point and includes the wildcard specification. Pathnames and wildcards may be used. Wild cards can exist in the pathname too. A special case is the double * that will match multiple directory levels, e.g. c:\**\*.m. Otherwise a single * will only match one directory level.
  e.g. C:\Program Files\Windows *\

EXECFUN is a function handle which takes at least one input argument

OPTEXECFUNARGS are optional input arguments to EXECFUN

Examples:
  
    % To create a file list
    fid=fopen('fileList.txt','wt');
    rdirExec('c:\program files\windows *\**\*.dll',@callBack,fid)
    fclose(fid);

    %The callBack function has the following signature
    function callBack(varargin)
    fileName=varargin{1};
    fid=varargin{2};
    fprintf(fid,'%s\n',fileName);
    end

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
Recursive directory listing

MATLAB release MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)
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26 May 2009 Henry

Great concept, but buggy implementation.

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Updates
29 Dec 2008

text indents in desc

10 May 2010

*Fixed 'clear D' bug

Tag Activity for this File
Tag Applied By Date/Time
directory Cristina McIntire 29 Dec 2008 15:55:16
path Cristina McIntire 29 Dec 2008 15:55:16
files Cristina McIntire 29 Dec 2008 15:55:16
utilities Cristina McIntire 29 Dec 2008 15:55:16
find Cristina McIntire 29 Dec 2008 15:55:16
exec Cristina McIntire 29 Dec 2008 15:55:16
directory file path Ashish Uthama 29 Dec 2008 16:54:32

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