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| 02 Jan 2010 | |
| Windows 7 64 bit Professional 30 posts | copy text not contents this should be an easy one but I can't figure it out. using windows explorer for my example - I have a folder that has lots of sub folders in it. I want to copy the names (text only) of the sub folders to a document but not the contents (files) of the sub folders. how do I do this? when I try to a copy it wants to copy name & contents. any ideas? |
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| 02 Jan 2010 | |
| xp, win7 11 posts | open a cmd shell in the top dir dir /d > filename.txt |
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| 03 Jan 2010 | |
| Windows 7 64 bit Professional 30 posts | thanks for the DOS help - win 7 popped open a notepad window - very cool. |
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| 01 May 2011 | |
| Win7 Home Premium 64-bit 317 posts | 
Quote: Originally Posted by oystercatcher 
Quote: Originally Posted by nedjinski this should be an easy one but I can't figure it out. using windows explorer for my example - I have a folder that has lots of sub folders in it. I want to copy the names (text only) of the sub folders to a document but not the contents (files) of the sub folders. how do I do this? when I try to a copy it wants to copy name & contents. any ideas? dir /d > filename.txt I want to take this one level deeper and get the names of the directories under that top directory. Can someone help? -thnx in advance |
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| 01 May 2011 | |
| Windows 7 x64 (SP1) 5,253 posts |
Quote: Originally Posted by MourningStar I want to take this one level deeper and get the names of the directories under that top directory. Can someone help? -thnx in advance |
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| 01 May 2011 | |
| Win7 Home Premium 64-bit 317 posts |
Quote: Originally Posted by logicearth
Quote: Originally Posted by MourningStar I want to take this one level deeper and get the names of the directories under that top directory. Can someone help? -thnx in advance  thnx 4 reply |
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| 01 May 2011 | |
| 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise 47,728 posts Texas | This may work great for this as well. Context Menu - Add View and Print File Directory - Vista Forums |
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| 01 May 2011 | |
| Win7 Home Premium 64-bit 317 posts |
Quote: Originally Posted by Brink This may work great for this as well. Context Menu - Add View and Print File Directory - Vista Forums oystercatcher's solution is simple for a neophyte such as myself and does one level short of what I am wanting (the text file creation is perfect). Maybe an additional switch in the dir command or an alternate (tree?) dos command? -thnx |
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| 01 May 2011 | |
| 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise 47,728 posts Texas | You're welcome. What works for you is what is important. |
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| 01 May 2011 | |
| Win7 Home Premium 64-bit 317 posts |
Quote: Originally Posted by Brink
Quote: Originally Posted by MourningStar
Quote: Originally Posted by Brink This may work great for this as well. Context Menu - Add View and Print File Directory - Vista Forums oystercatcher's solution is simple for a neophyte such as myself and does one level short of what I am wanting (the text file creation is perfect). Maybe an additional switch in the dir command or an alternate (tree?) dos command? -thnx |
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