Listing full harddrive and CD contents?

Pigman

Hi,
is there any program out there that can scan a harddrive or cd and print out to a textfile the entire contents of the disk in the format



C:\dir1\file1.doc
C:\dir1\file2.doc
...
C:\dir1\file(N).doc
...
C:\dir2\file1.doc
C:\dir2\file2.doc

C:\dir(N)\file(N).doc

all the way down to ...

C:\dir(N)\file(N).doc



Basically I need the full path of every file on my harddrive/cds to be written out and kept in a text file.

Is there any command or program that can achieve this?

Thanks!

tman

i have a vauge memory of the dir command having a switch that did that.
tis lost in the hazy vaults of my memory tho

Thanx 4 The Fish

dir /s does output the full contents but not in that format ..

What os are you using, do you have any UNIX there, could use "find -name *" that outputs in that format.

Bard

obviously if he's quoting the directories as c:\... etc., it's a windows/dos environment and not UNIX.

go to the command line... go to the root of the c drive ( " cd \ ") and type " dir /s > dir.txt " ... it will churn away for a while creating a text file called dir.txt ... then open this text file and see if it's what you need/want.... . . . . ..

Mr E

Best thing is a quickie batch file. Go to the root directory of your c:\ drive, and create a batch file called dirlist.bat.

@echo off
dir c:\ /s/b/a/o > c:\dirlist.txt
dir d:\ /s/b/a/o >> c:\dirlist.txt
dir e:\ /s/b/a/o >> c:\dirlist.txt
etc.
etc.

/s = search subdirectories
/b = brief (doesn't break for volume information between directories)
/a = list all files (including hidden and system)
/o = order files alphabetically

The '>>' part means that each dir command appends to the previous dir command's output. One '>' will create/overwrite the file (hence being on the first dir command).

Beware space consideration, though.... I just did my C:\ drive, and it created a 2mb file. Expect much bigger if (for instance) you are doing a large MP3 drive.

- Dave.

Pigman

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!
Bard and Fish you had the right idea but it wasn't quite what I wanted. Tmb, your batchfile did just the trick. Thanks!

I changed the output to an Excel file and it's scary to find out you have 40,000 files on your computer!

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Got another one!

Basically this one involves joining files with the SAME NAME eg I'll have 3 directories dir1 dir2 and dir3. Each directory has a file called (lets say) pigman.txt and I want to join all 3 together

Ordinarily I could just put them all in a new directory and use a batchfile to join them but, as I said, they all have the same filename so that is not an option.

BTW, I would consider renaming them and putting them all in the same directory except when I mentioned earlier that there was 3 files in reality there is closer to 300.

Thanks in advance for suggestions!

Mr E

Hi Pigman,

A modified version of the following batchfile will do what you want. Haven't got time to test it, but I recommend setting up a test directory structure and testing it on that first (just in case!).

http://www.ericphelps.com/batch/samples/alldirs.bat.txt

Its the :LOOPSTART function (and the DIR command before it) that you should be looking at.

- Dave.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Originally posted by Bard
obviously if he's quoting the directories as c:\... etc., it's a windows/dos environment and not UNIX.

go to the command line... go to the root of the c drive ( " cd \ ") and type " dir /s > dir.txt " ... it will churn away for a while creating a text file called dir.txt ... then open this text file and see if it's what you need/want.... . . . . ..

Well spotted there, could be running on a dual boot aswell though couldn't he. Also if there was any windows based Unix emulators on his machine those could be used.