DOS - list files in folders without path

Hi Tuxalot,

Nice Work!

BTW - It doesn't work for me unless I set the current path in the batch at the start.

Code:

:: SET Automatically the current path (i.e. the path that this is run from) 
 set  curpath=%~dp0
:: CD to the current path
 pushd  %curpath%

I would also recommend using variables for the program files location rather than hardcoding it to the C drive.

Code:

 
%programfiles%\SHCK\SHCKdocs

In regards the bit of code that you didn't know, the %~dp0 is for expanding drive letters and paths.

If you want to add a progress timer, try counting the total number of files in the location, here's some code for C:\ to get you started.

Code:

dir "C:\" /b | find /v /c "::"

Now set up a loop that displays an ongoing count after one of your %outfile% write entries.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the insight Tim.

BTW - It doesn't work for me unless I set the current path in the batch at the start.

I wonder why you need to set the current path? While it seems like a good idea anyways, it was working for me.

I would also recommend using variables for the program files location rather than hardcoding it to the C drive.

I've incorporated these changes. I may wait on the progress timer idea...I've found a more pressing issue that I need to address. It turns out that the application that uses these text files, needs the files in ascending alpha order. Argggg!

Thinking more about this, what about this approach?

To summarize, the remaining goal is to sort Output1 and Output2. Output1 is FQPN of zip and mp3 files. Output2 is just a sorted list of filenames.

So if the code can produce a temporary outputX that looks like this:

file1.zip(a delimiter of some type)D:\folder1\folder2\folder3\etc...\file1.zip

Now, we can sort on file name and build outputX. So this is the code for that:

Code:

PushD "%_Source%"
For /F "Tokens=* Delims=" %%g In ('Dir /A-D /B /S *.zip 2^>Nul') Do Echo."%%~ng"\#"%%~dpng">>"%_OutFileX%"
SORT "%_OutFileX%" > "%_OutFileXS%"

After, we read OutFileXS back into the script and split the data into two separate files at the delimiter (I chose # as the delimiter) yielding Output1, Output2. Here is the code for that but it's not working:

Code:

for /F "Tokens=1 delims=#" %%a In ("%_OutFileXS%") Do Echo.%%a>>"%_OutFile2%"

Any help is appreciated.

Tux.