Copy Files in Batches using Search Terms

Copy files matching search terms, from sub-directories matching search terms into a new directory.

Description

Tristan Ursell
File accumulator
March 2012

This function is a command line program that copy all the files in a set of sub-directories whose file names match a given set of search terms, into a new directory. The new directory's name can be specified or automatically generated. The copied files will retain their old name structure, except the sub-directory name from which they originated will be appended onto the name.

Follow the command-line instructions. File name search terms can not include single quotes. Search terms preserve spaces between words, hence do not include spaces that are not there, and are case sensitive.

• Required Products: MATLAB
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.9 (R2009b)

[Tristan Ursell]

@Jan, thanks. I 'char'-ed it just to be safe :)

[Jan Simon]

Just a small comment:
path_in=fullfile(fullfile(path1,Dstruct(dirs(i)).name),char(tempnames(j)))
can be written as:
path_in = fullfile(path1, Dstruct(dirs(i)).name, tempnames{j})