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gabboshow
gabboshow

Reputation: 5579

find the path of a file in matlab

Hello I would like to locate the file 'my_file.mat' that should be somewhere inside the folder 'C:\...\mypath\folder1'.

the folder folder1 contains several subfolders and the file my_file could be in any of these subfolders. I would like to retrieve its full path.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2855

Answers (2)

Sylvia
Sylvia

Reputation: 129

You want to use the which function.

mypath = which('my_file.mat')

As commented below, this assumes that your 'folder1' has been added to your search path. To add (and remove if no longer needed) 'folder1' to your search path:

my_folder_path = 'path/to/folder1'
addpath(genpath(my_folder_path))
mypath = which('my_file.mat')   
rmpath(my_folder_path)

Upvotes: 3

GameOfThrows
GameOfThrows

Reputation: 4510

I think you are looking for genpath and which combo:

addpath(genpath(folderName));
which test.txt -all

>>
Z:\home\**\Documents\MATLAB\R2010b\bin\test.txt

Upvotes: 1

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