How to move files to one level up and append the name of the folder in which they are contained?

Hello,

My folders and files are arranged as follows:

myFolder/0.0001/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.0002/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.0003/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.0004/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.0005/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.0006/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.0007/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.0008/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.0009/zNormal.vtp

myFolder/0.001/zNormal.vtp

I'd like to move all the 'zNormal.vtp' files to one level up and append the name of the folders in which they are contained.

Example:

myFolder/0.0001/zNormal.vtp --> myFolder/zNormal_0.0001.vtp.

So the 0.0001 folder would now remain empty

Any help would be much appreciated

[Stephen23]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/dir.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fullfile.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/movefile.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/process-a-sequence-of-files.html

Answer 1

[Jan]

BaseFolder = 'myFolder';
FileList   = dir(fullfile(BaseFolder, '**', '*.vtp'));
for iFile = 1:numel(FileList)
    File    = FileList(iFile);
    oldFile = fullfile(File.folder, File.name);
    newFile = fullfile(BaseFolder, [File.Folder, '_', File.name]);
    movefile(oldFile, newFile);
end