How can I create many folders on Windows 7 from a text file (.txt)

Question

I have Windows 7 (English) and I want to create many folders from a text with Greeks names (I'm Greek).

Do you know any program (especially freeware) or a command line trick to get my job done ? Thank you very much.

Answer 1

You could do this with the FOR command in dos calling MD to create directories:

Example. Create a text file with a folder name on each line, and save as test.txt then on the command line run:

FOR /F %i in (test.txt) do md %i

Not sure if Greek names require unicode, and how the above would be affected by that though.

Answer 2

Open notepad and paste the following into it:

mkdir test
mkdir test1
mkdir test2
mkdir test3

Save the file with the name "WhateverYouWant.bat"

Name the file whatever you want to name it. The important thing is that you have it in quotes and it ends in .bat

Now double click the file you just made.

This example should create 4 folders named test, test1, test2, and test3.

Now, just replace test, test1, etc. with the names you'd like the folders to have. There's no limit to the number of lines you can have in the .bat file, so go crazy!