Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials

June 3rd, 2010

By Doug Hull

Doug first used MATLAB in 1994, could not figure it out until he got some help in 1995. He is now dedicated to making sure that no one else wastes a year of their life not knowing MATLAB like he did.

20:29 UTC | Posted in Format: Video, Level: Basic | Permalink | 4 Comments »

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4 Responses to “Find newest file in a directory”

1. Kevin Sheppard replied on June 3rd, 2010 at 20:59 UTC :
   

   !dir /od *.m
   

   at least on Windows

2. dhull replied on June 7th, 2010 at 17:36 UTC :
   

   @Kevin,

   Thank you, as with many of my videos the intent is more to take a simple example to show general techniques. This command does solve this specific problem very nicely though.

   Thanks,
   Doug

3. Vishu replied on June 28th, 2011 at 11:28 UTC :
   

   Excellent. This was of a great help to me because i have to read files with stamp. However, one small correction. In line 5, replace the ‘~’ with some variable eg. a. What kevin wrote was right though i cudn get how to obtain the latest file name.

4. dhull replied on June 29th, 2011 at 18:28 UTC :
   

   @Vishu,

   In newer versions of MATLAB, the ~ means “ignore this outout/input”.

   Doug

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