Creating a Text List of Files From a Folder?

DarkWarrior

I'm interested in creating some txt lists of files I have as I have a lot, mainly the music so that if anything ever happened to the HDD I'd have an idea of what I used to have and could replace them. Is there any program or bat.file code I could use to do this?

Zxerol

Ultracheap method: "dir > file.txt" on the command line. Use the /s switch to list child subdirectories too if you want.

PeregrineFalcon

dir /b /s > file.txt would work well, and give you just the filenames.

"tree > file.txt" would give you a directory structure if you've got the music sorted by album/artist/etc, then you just have a list of albums.

Trentus

PeregrineFalchttp://forums.penny-arcade.com/images/styles/PA/editor/menupop.gifon wrote: »

"tree > file.txt" would give you a directory structure if you've got the music sorted by album/artist/etc, then you just have a list of albums.

Chuck in the /f switch to get the files as well.

PeregrineFalcon

Trentus wrote: »

PeregrineFalchttp://forums.penny-arcade.com/images/styles/PA/editor/menupop.gifon wrote: »

"tree > file.txt" would give you a directory structure if you've got the music sorted by album/artist/etc, then you just have a list of albums.

Chuck in the /f switch to get the files as well.

If you've got a bunch of loose files (downloaded music or whatever) then sure, but artist + album should be enough for commercially ripped CDs.

Also, good lord, what happened to my name there?

Trentus

PeregrineFalcon wrote: »

Trentus wrote: »

PeregrineFalchttp://forums.penny-arcade.com/images/styles/PA/editor/menupop.gifon wrote: »

"tree > file.txt" would give you a directory structure if you've got the music sorted by album/artist/etc, then you just have a list of albums.

Chuck in the /f switch to get the files as well.

If you've got a bunch of loose files (downloaded music or whatever) then sure, but artist + album should be enough for commercially ripped CDs.

Also, good lord, what happened to my name there?

Huh... I wonder if that'll happen this time... I mean, I guess it's possible that I screwed it up, but I don't know how. It's not like I had that url on my clipboard or anything and I don't recall typing it...

SyphonBlue

Hmmm...Is there any way to do this but not have the weird symbols in front of all the directories?

Or is that just me?

Trentus

Ah, right, use tree /a to tell it to print ascii characters.

SyphonBlue

:^:

DarkWarrior

Thanks guys.

DarkWarrior

What does it mean when it says "Too many parameters - /s"?

EDIT: Nevermind was doing it wrong.

Anyway, additional question, the best result seems to be dir /b /s which doesnt give me stuff i dont need like file size and date modified. But is there a way to get it to also ignore the file directory so I just get a solid list of names?

The output I'm getting at the moment is this:


\Music\Akon - Beautiful (Ft. Colby Odonis And Kardinal Offishall).mp3

Compared to this:

10/08/2009 17:27 7,350,021 Akon - Beautiful (Ft. Colby Odonis And Kardinal Offishall).mp3

Although the second output for some reason ignores the album art which I like.

PeregrineFalcon

Once it's in a text file, just Ctrl+H (find and replace) the "D:\Music\" bit with "" and you're golden.

Also, if there's hidden files, you'll want dir /a /b /s > file.txt - the /a will give you hidden/system as well.

DarkWarrior

Ah ok so I want to leave out the /a and it'll skip the album art. Thanks guys, I knew there was a command but its been along while since I used DOS for anything but mass deletion.

Thanks muchly.