Win2k Directory Listing

[Vincent]

It's me again, but you'll be glad to know that I shouldn't have any more questions about the A1200 EZ-Tower :-)

I have a directory of mp3's and want a list of them printed out - I'm not gonna type every one of them into a text file myself because there's about 200 of them.

In AmigaDOS there's a way to output a drawer list to a text file ( dir >RAM:list.txt - I think).  Is there a way to so this in Win2k?

[mikeymike]

Have you tried that command? :-)

[Vincent]

Doh! :lol:

[SilvrDrgn]

1) cd to the directory that contains the files you want listed.
2) dir /b > ..\list.txt
(/b is "bare" format, no directory command header or trailer information.  Plus, you use "..\list.txt" for the destination because otherwise the list.txt file itself will show up in the list.)
3) print the list.txt file

[Waccoon]

Don't forget "dir /?" shows you everything.  Well, everything documented, at least.

[mikeymike]

For added oddness in NT4, Win2k and beyond, get a command prompt up and type: cmd /?

[Vincent]

mikeymike wrote:
For added oddness in NT4, Win2k and beyond, get a command prompt up and type: cmd /?

Yeah, 7 pages of almost usless stuff :-D

This is the exact command I used:

dir/o /b >D:\testing.txt

And it worked perfectly.  I don't know why I never thought of it before, I used to use DOS a lot in my early computing days.  I didn't think it'd be as simple as that, or if it would even work - it is a PC after all ;-) - and I never thought it'd be almost exactly the same as it is in AmigaDOS - let's face it PC's arent that sensible are they ;-)

Cheers guys :-D