Deleting folders with specific name

Hi I have one main folder which is named Newfolder.

C:\Users\sesa498313\Desktop\Newfolder

in this Newfolder there are many folders with different name such as F21802010055, F21802010058, etc. In some of these sub-folders there is a folder name FTC, and I want to delete all these folder at the first step. Can you please advise how I can do that?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Jan]

Base = 'C:\Users\sesa498313\Desktop\Newfolder';
List = dir(fullfile(Base, '**', 'FTC'));
List = List([List.isdir]);   % Folders only
for k = 1:numel(List)  % [EDITED, typo: list -> List]
  [status,msg] = rmdir(fullfile(List(k).folder, List(k).name));
  is status ~= 1
    fprintf(2, '%s\n', msg);
  end
end

[roozbeh yousefnejad]

Thanks Jan, but I get error says

Undefined function or variable 'list'.

Error in del (line 4)
for k = 1:numel(list )

what do you recommend now?

[Jan]

@roozbeh yousefnejad: Come on. You can see the code. I've defined and used the variable "List" before. But in the for loop definition I made a typo by writing "list" with a lower-case L. This is fixed now.

[roozbeh yousefnejad]

Sorry ;-) my bad. but still I get nothing. There is no error but List is 0*0 struct, and when I checked the folders, FTC files are still in the folders. Actually I checked now and in all the folders, I still have FTC folders.

[roozbeh yousefnejad]

@Jan I think there is a problem with dir as I am not getting an answer from it. I went through these steps

>> fullfile(Base, '**', 'FTC')

ans =

      'C:\Users\sesa498313\Desktop\del\**\FTC'

>> dir(ans);
'C:\Users\sesa498313\Desktop\del\**\FTC' not found.

I think that's why List is 0*0 struct. Do you have any recommendation for it?

[Jan]

Which Matlab versions are you using? The recursive search with works since R2016b. Please mention if you are working with an old versions.

If you have an older Matlab version, you can use one of the dozens of implementations from the FileExchange: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=recursive+dir

[roozbeh yousefnejad]

the version I am using is 2017b

[Jan]

Then dir understands the operation. In this case the message means, that the folder C:\Users\sesa498313\Desktop\del does not contain subfolders, which are called 'FTC'. Are you sure that you have such folders?