[BC] Printing file lists

Mark Earle mearle
Fri Dec 29 11:19:39 CST 2006


Tom Taggart wrote:
> To the gurus of the gigabytes:
> 
> How does one print a copy of a file list?
> 
> We've accumulated a number of wav files as music fill and as a backup in case of net failure.  Realized we are not entirely sure of what we have.
> 
> Would be nice if there was some easy way to bring up that folder and just print a list of the file names (they are, of course, "artist" "Title" as the file name of each cut).
> 
> Even better if we could get a txt file to cut and paste into a word processor.
> 
> Suggestions?
Dos is your friend.

Open a command prompt.

C:
cd \
cd \my music    <-- or wherever

dir /s >> c:\filelist.txt

then open the file or import to word or excel for further editing.

Note that you may want to do dir /? for options and sorting options.

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