clear s = dir ; root = 'http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/mat' ; for k = 1:length(s) s(k) name = s(k).name if (s(k).isdir && name(1) ~= '.') try urlwrite ([root '/' name '/README.txt'], [name '/README.txt']) ; catch disp (lasterr) end end pause end