WHICHX

File search within MATLAB search path using wildcards.

Description

WHICHX file search within MATLAB search path using wildcards

The output in command window is linked, so that is possible to start M-Files, open MDL-, FIG-files and other types in editor or GUIDE directly. Please look on the screenshot.

EXAMPLES:
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WHICHX *.m lists all the M-files in the matlab search paths.

D = WHICHX('*.m') returns the results in an M-by-1
   structure with the fields:
       name -- filename
       date -- modification date
       bytes -- number of bytes allocated to the file
       isdir -- 1 if name is a directory and 0 if not%
       path -- directory

See also DIR, MATLABPATH, CD

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.1.0 (R14SP3)
• Other requirements: tested on PCWIN- and LINUX-Computer.

[John D'Errico]

Splendid. It also runs on Mac OSX.

[Valeri Karlov]

Nice fast search. Real help. Before I used wwhich (from central file exchange), but in Matlab 7.1 it stopped working (do not know why). But, whichx works great.

[Evgeni Verbitski]

Very, very good tuning of which! Very helpful in finding anything in old folders. Thanks!

[Kent Conover]

Works well - thanks. I propose that whichx.m should be included in the next Matlab release (R2007b).

[Aurélien QUEFFURUST]

Excellent! It is also great to be able to edit, run or cd the output

[Thierry Dalon]

I would add for M-Files a link to call the help.

[Thierry Dalon]

One Limitation:
If several M-files of same name are found, the links for run and edit will always open the "dominant" one.
Add full path in input to run and edit and use run function for run.

[Elmar Tarajan]

Thank you Thierry.
I'll fix it as soon as possible.
the new version is almost ready.

[Thierry Dalon]

Another limitation: it does not display methods files that is functions that are in a class directory. (because these directory are not returned by the path function).
So in some cases the which function returns more output than whichx :-(