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A friend who uses a pc asked if, on a mac, I could conveniently list
the contents of a folder. I opened a folder and copied and pasted the titles of the files that it contained to a blank text file. He said the same trick does not work in windows. My question: in windows, is there some easy way of getting a list of the names of the files contained in a folder? |
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: south carolina
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I want to put the list of file names into another file. And I
do not want to open a dos window to do it. |
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Code:
dir Code:
dir /w And so on.You probably want to have a look at Code:
dir /? to learn the various options.No GUI way in Explorer itself that I know of. |
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create a file with this line:
dir > outputfile.txt name it whatever.bat create an icon for it, etc. |
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For a very quick and dirty solution, how about this: make a batch file that deletes itself, lists the working directory and pipes the results into a text file on the desktop.
Then you just have the batch file somewhere accessible, such as on the desktop. Whenever you need to do this thing, you copy the batch file to the directory you want to list and run it. |
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