OpenJason » ddfilecatcher http://www.openjason.com Weblog of all things Open Source, Web 2.0, Joomla!, and more... Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:54:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Creating a list of files within a directory http://www.openjason.com/2009/07/11/creating-a-list-of-files-within-a-directory/ http://www.openjason.com/2009/07/11/creating-a-list-of-files-within-a-directory/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:40:03 +0000 Jason http://www.openjason.com/?p=395 There’s been so many times where I needed to get a list of files that reside within a certain directory. There’s software out there to do it (like DDFilecatcher), but who wants to pay for it? It seems like it would be so simple just to create a little script that’ll take the names of all the files I have in a folder and save it to a .txt file. Well, here’s how you do it.

  1. Open notepad
  2. Put this code into the file

    dir /b>filelist.txt

  3. Save it as “filelist.bat”
  4. Place filelist.bat into the directory you need to get the list from
  5. Click on filelist.bat from within the folder
  6. You’ll now have a .txt doc called “filelist.txt”

    7. Simple, right? This has saved me so much time… it’s ridiculous.

    filelist

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