From help-request at octave dot org Mon Jul 12 03:34:32 2004
Subject: Re: loading 100-200 .dat
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:32:19 +0200

Or do it directly in Octave:

---
files = glob('*.dat');

for i = 1:length(file)
  load(files{i})
endfor
---

If David's patch gets applied, it would simply become

for f = glob('*.dat')
  load(f)
endfor

Regards
Stefan

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:35:19PM -0600, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> mimo wrote:
> > Hi there, 
> > 
> > Is there a convenient way to load all .dat in one directory.  Just don't know 
> > how to tell octave to get all .dat fiiles one by one. I've been searching 
> > quite a while... pretty sure it's merely one line for experienced :-)
> > 
> > thomas
> > 
> 
> I would write an .m file that loads all those files. You can write a simple
> shell script to create the .m file, e.g.:
> 
> (in your terminal shell)$ for i in *.txt ; do echo load ${i} ; done > loadall.m
> 
> Then execute 'loadall' in octave...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dmitri.



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