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Hi Raphael,

1. Save the following code to a file called run_jobs.m located in a directory included in your matlab path or your current working directory.  Do not change anything in the code.

function run_jobs (job_dir, job_pattern)
   % initialize spm
   spm('defaults', 'FMRI');
   spm_jobman ('initcfg');

   job_dir_listing = dir (fullfile (job_dir, job_pattern));

   for i=1:size(job_dir_listing)
      spm_jobman ('run', fullfile (job_dir, job_dir_listing(i).name));
   end
end

2. Call the function from the matlab command window. Substitute job_dir with the directory where your batch files are stored and job_pattern with a pattern that matches your batch files and  nothing else if you run "dir job_pattern" in your job_dir, e.g. '*.mat' if the only files in job_dir that have extension .mat are your batch files. If for example your batch files are called batchjob1.mat batchjob2.mat etc, then job_pattern could be 'batchjob*.mat'. * is the commonly used wildcard character, see e.g. the matlab help for dir.

run_jobs (job_dir, job_pattern) 

I hope this helps!

Cheers,
Andreas
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>Raphael Underwood
>Skickat: den 11 januari 2015 00:46
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>Ämne: Re: [SPM] SV: [SPM] Running multiple batch files
>
>Hi Andreas,
>
>Thank you for the help, this looks great. I'm afraid I am so new to matlab I will
>need a little follow-up help. I'm not sure which parts of the script to leave
>alone and which parts to replace with my own filenames/directories. I've
>copied the script below with the sections I am not sure what to do with...
>
>Example usage: run_jobs ('directory where my batch files are?', '*.mat')
>
>function run_jobs (directory where my batch files are?, what job pattern?)
>   % initialize spm
>   spm('defaults', 'FMRI');
>   spm_jobman ('initcfg');
>
>   job_dir_listing = dir (do I replace fullfile with something? (directory where
>my batch files are?, job pattern?));
>
>   for i=1:total number of batch files?(???)
>      spm_jobman ('run', fullfile (job_dir, ???(i).name));
>   end
>end
>
>Best wishes,
>Raphael