Genpath is excluding package folders

Hello,

I am writing a script that requires to know every folder and subfolder, for which genpath() works perfectly.

However, there are a few folders that are packages (and begin with a '+'), and genpath ignores those.

Is it possible to have genpath include those, or some other way to automatically include that?

Thanks!

[Walter Roberson]

No, it is not possible to set any flags or pass any options to genpath to cause it to return + directories: processing of them is hard-coded. genpath also removes @ directories.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try using dir() with double asterisks. See the help or my attached demo.

[Matthew Brown]

Thanks, dir('**/*.m') does what I need it to do.

However, does that only work in 2016+? The code I am writing will need to be backwards compatible with versions back to 2012B.

[Walter Roberson]

You can look in File Exchange for one of the several recursive directory functions, such as https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32226-recursive-directory-listing-enhanced-rdir

Answer 2

[Jan]

There is a pile of solutions in the FileExchange:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=recursive+dir