How to use robocopy in matlab ?

Hello,

I have 2 path strings in matlab:

source="C:\2018\c\EM"

destination="U:\Probe\EM"

and i want to use them as arguments for robocopy

when i write system('robocopy source destination') it doesen't work like I want.

robocopy doesn't read the content of source and destination.

Can you help me with this function. Thank you

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Build the command from the text data then pass the constructed command into system.

source="C:\2018\c\EM"
destination="U:\Probe\EM"
command = "robocopy " + source + " " + destination
system(command)

You may need to add single quotes around the source and destination locations if they contain spaces. Add those quotes inside the strings "robocopy " and " ".

[houssem gara]

Thank you so much :)

Answer 2

[houssem gara]

Hello, I have another question. I used robocopy to copy the content of a folder A. the folder A contains a subfolder B and another files. But when I used robocopy it just copy the files in the folder A and it doesn't copy the subfolder B.

THank you

[Steven Lord]

I've never used robocopy so I'm not sure how (or if) you can get it to work recursively. You're probably going to need to read through its help / documentation, ask the author, or post on a forum for that software.

[houssem gara]

okey thank you for your help