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matlabdirectorycopysavefile-type

Make a copy of the files in a directory but save them as a different file type

Is it possible to list all of the files in a directory of a certain file type, and then save them in the same directory but as a separate file type using MatLab?

In my case, I have 144 files saved as in a .fig format, but I would like to copy them as a .tif format so that I don't have to go and change each file manually.

I know I can list all the files in my directory using the dir function and I guess I could simply run for loop with i=1:length(dir) but I don't know how to isolate the files of a specific file type. I don't see filetype as a field name on the mathworks website for dir.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Solution

  • To list only files of type .fig:

    files = dir('*.fig');

    You can then loop over the names:

    for k = 1:numel(files)
    filename = files(k).name;
    % do something with filename
end