executing a function in multiple directories
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I have a function which i would like to execute in multiple directories. Because it takes a long time to finish executing in each directory I'd like to automate this to run overnight.
Please point me in the right direction.
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Sven
on 10 Nov 2011
Do you mean that you want yourfunction() to execute first on "c:/directory1", then "c:/directory2", then "c:/directory3", etc?
If so, I think you can write a short script that *calls* yourfunction() from different directories. For example:
cd 'c:/directory2'
yourfunction()
... etc.
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Fangjun Jiang
on 10 Nov 2011
That is probably not the best word describing your need. Based on your previous questions, I guess you want to run a program. The program searches a folder for some file and then do processing on these files. You need to run the program searching multiple folders.
If you design your function in a way that the full path of the folder is an input argument, you could easily wrap this function in a for-loop to process lots of folders overnight. You could manually specify all the folders, or you can use dir() to get all the folders.
%%specify folder
Folder={'c:\MyFolder\F1';'c:\MyFolder\F2';'c:\MyFolder\F3'};
for k=1:length(Folder)
MyPlot(Folder{k});
end
%%or find the folder
ParentFolder='c:\MyFolder';
AllFile=dir(fullfile(ParentFolder,'F*'));
FolderOnly=AllFile([AllFile.isdir]);
for k=1:length(FolderOnly)
MyPlot(fullfile(ParentFolder,FolderOnly(k).name));
end
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