Matlab: Number of files in a folder excluding the file names information -

i looking way count number of files in folder path without caring names of files. dir function extracts names unnecessary specific application.

since i'm looking @ 100 folders , each folder includes 35000 files in it, time consuming if use "dir" function.

any appreciated.

somedir = 'c:\users\you\somepath\' //whatever directory want [status,cmdout] = system(['dir ' somedir  '*.* /s'])

and can parse out number of files cmdout

this should faster because running system command lose overhead of matlab.

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