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creating a file list
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does anyone know how to create a list of files in a CD?
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in windows drop to a command prompt: if you do not know how to do this, go to Start > Run type 'cmd' then you will be presented with a text screen in here, change to your CD drive:
<drive letter>: return
then type 'dir /s'
this will ist everything on your cd including subdirectories
to create a text file containing the list, the text file will be located in the root of your C drive, or you can specify a different location to save the list
I bow at your superior knowledge and slap myself for giving bad info
Add an 'ah' in the right place and you'll also get to see all hidden files as well . a 'dir /?' should give more information.
I'm really out of date with DOS/Windows, so I might be slightly off-course. Us lords of the universe use 'ls', 'du' and 'df'. And we get funky tools like 'tree', which is great for making a list of music on your PC .
Anyway, I'm off-topic...
ah back in true dos days, xtree (God even i am rusty with Dos, been using unix for too long now!) used to be such a useful tool!
When I we'r lad, back in t'old days, we ad andful of commands. Could do ev'rything in ten keystrokes or less.
Actually, even today, I've got a command line open most of the time. It's so much easier to just do a 'mv *.flac /media/storage/Music' than it is to try and select all files in this directory with a certain file extension.
And if you need something with a bit more power, just move over to mc. So simple, so smooth, so out-of-date and ugly, yet all you need. And just as fast as nano
I might start visiting here using Lynx .