How to copy files but not folders from one folder to destination?

Not sure why I am having difficulty searching for this but all the questions I found were just about copying specific file or specific patterns of files.

Is there a quick way to ask copyfile to copy only the files but not the folders that may also be in the directory to a destination directory?

Thanks!

Jesse

[dpb]

Not by itself, no...it's not that smart.

Couple ways to work around limitations; probably simplest in Matlab alone is to use dir('*.*') and iterate over the contents checking each entry is not a directory before passing to copyfile.

Another job really best to pass to the underlying OS with appropriate switches to whatever command is appropriate for the OS you're using.

[Zhangxi Feng]

Yeah so I implemented this with the dir command and removing all the items that are directories then iterate through each of the remaining files with copyfile.

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Zhangxi Feng]

For others who may have a similar question, I achieved this goal by using the following:

sourceDir = dir(runSource);
sourceDir([sourceDir.isdir]) = [];
for k = 1:numel(sourceDir)
    sourceFile = [sourceDir(k).folder,'/',sourceDir(k).name];
    destFile = [curDir,'/',sourceDir(k).name];
    copyfile(sourceFile,destFile);
end