Copy file from one directory to another

Hi,

So I am using this piece of code to copy some files with similar names from several destination paths (e.g. file03431314, file6767464363, etc).

When I use 'file*' it assumes it is a directory, which is not...

When I actualy copy and paste the filename, e.g. 'file03431314', it works fine.

PS: the file that I want to copy does not have an extension.

How can I fix this?

Thanks

p1 = 'filepath'

% Copying file from respective path
pdest = 'mydestinationpath';

filename = 'file*';
source = fullfile(p1,filename);
destination = fullfile(pdest,filename);
copyfile(source,destination)

% Renaming
oldname = filename;
newname = '1_file.txt'; 
copyfile(oldname,newname);

% Deleting old file
delete(filename)

[Jan]

What does this mean:

When I use 'file*' it assumes it is a directory, which is not...

What are the "it"s and why do you assume that it assumes that what is a directory?

Is renaming the files a part of the question?

Answer 1

[Jan]

If there are really problems with the copy of a file pattern, do it explicitly with a loop:

psource = 'filepath'
pdest   = 'mydestinationpath';
pattern = 'file*';
sourceDir = dir(fullfile(psource, pattern));
sourceDir([sourceDir.isdir]) = [];  % Files only
for k = 1:numel(sourceDir)
    sourceFile = fullfile(psource, sourceDir(k).name);
    destFile   = fullfile(pdest, sourceDir(k).name);  % Or another name?
    movefile(sourceFile, destFile);
end

Answer 2

[Prajwol Tamrakar]

This issue of copying file to another directory is possibly due to "ready only access". Use 'f' option to override the read-only status of the destination folder.

copyfile(SourceFile, DestinyFile, 'f')

Answer 3

[Omer Yasin Birey]

Maybe you can get parts of the filename by using

[filepath,name,ext] = fileparts(file);

and after that you can use directly the name of the file instead of this "filename = 'file*';"

[filepath,name,ext] = fileparts(file);

filepath =

'H:\user4\matlab'

name =

'myfile'

ext =

'.txt'

once you get the name of the file by this, you can use it in your code.

[Marisabel Gonzalez]

It's not just one file. I'm running simulations and I want to save the output files. All of them start with the same name but then are followed by a series of numbers. Also, the files don't have an extension. I save it as .txt but the original file doesn't have any extension.

[Omer Yasin Birey]

filename = 'file';
numbers = [1 2 3 4 5 1234324123 03431314 3431314123123 ..... ]
for i = 1:length(k)
    nFile{i} = sprintf('%s_%d',filename,numbers(i));
end