Apply a function to files

Thanks again to John D’Errico for giving Scott an extended break …

Following the advent of a more sophisticated cellfun in the newest matlab release, we now have FILEFUN, by Jerker Wagberg. Filefun allows you to apply any function to many files. Do you wish to simply collect the help for every function in a toolbox? Compute the average RGB values for each jpeg image in a directory tree? Perhaps you just wish to run a list of matlab scripts. Each of these tasks are now just a few keystrokes away.

I only wish I had not tested to see if ‘delete’ could be applied to all the files under matlabroot. Where did I put that backup?

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One Response to “Apply a function to files”

alexander valdenegro replied on July 24th, 2008 at 4:12 pm :

Dear Doug I have created a function with guide to transform a excel file to another format I can read all files in a directory with excel files Once and for all.

thanks

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