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dir

List folder contents on device

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Syntax

dir(device,folder)
clist = dir(device,folder)

Description

dir(device,folder) lists the files in a folder on the ROS or ROS 2 device. Wildcards are supported.

example

clist = dir(device,folder) stores the list of files as a structure.

Examples

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Open Live Script

Connect to a ROS device and list the contents of a folder.

Connect to a ROS device. Specify the device address, user name, and password of your ROS device.

d = rosdevice('192.168.17.129','user','password');

Get the folder list of a Catkin workspace on your ROS device. View the folder as a table.

flist = dir(d,'/home/user/Documents/mw_catkin_ws/');
ftable = struct2table(flist)
ftable=6×4 table
            name                            folder                    isdir    bytes
    _____________________    _____________________________________    _____    _____

    {'.'                }    {'/home/user/Documents/mw_catkin_ws'}    true       0  
    {'..'               }    {'/home/user/Documents/mw_catkin_ws'}    true       0  
    {'.catkin_workspace'}    {'/home/user/Documents/mw_catkin_ws'}    false     98  
    {'build'            }    {'/home/user/Documents/mw_catkin_ws'}    true       0  
    {'devel'            }    {'/home/user/Documents/mw_catkin_ws'}    true       0  
    {'src'              }    {'/home/user/Documents/mw_catkin_ws'}    true       0

Input Arguments

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ROS or ROS 2 device, specified as a rosdevice or ros2device object, respectively.

Name of the folder to list the contents of, specified as a character vector.

Output Arguments

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Contents list, returned as a structure. The structure contains these fields:

  • name — File name (char)

  • folder — Absolute path (char)

  • bytes — Size of the file in bytes (double)

  • isdir — Indicator of whether name is a folder (logical)

Version History

Introduced in R2019b

See Also

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