- Copy that file somewere else ( copyfile() ), delete, copy back.
- Get list of all files ( dir() ), delete xyz from list, delete all files in list
How to delete text files except one.?
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In one folder there are so many text files. I want to delete all that files except one named XYZ.txt using matlab.
delete(*.txt)
This function deletes all. So, how to do.?
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José-Luis
on 16 Feb 2013
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 16 Feb 2013
yourfolder='d:/test/';
f=dir([yourfolder '*.txt'])
f={f.name}
n=find(strcmp(f,'file.txt'));
f{n}=[]
for k=1:numel(f);
delete([yourfolder f{k}])
end
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