Command Line print all file names in directory

Question

I have a directory that contains about 3000 images, what I would like to do is to print out (to a file if possible or even to screen) the whole images names after doing some string formatting and concatenation to them,
for example:

I would like each image name to be transformed into the following formula

tick.png  -->> <image src="tick.png" />

Thanks

Answer 1

What I suggest you to do is to write a simple batch file that processes files in the directory and outputs them in the given format.

For instance create file run.bat and type the following command in it:

FOR %%F IN (*.png) DO @echo ^<img src='%%F'/^>

Now, you can run the command in the command-line, by entering:

run

If you want to save the results of the batch process into a file (such as images.html), you can use:

run > images.html

If you need to add more commands/processing steps, just edit the batch file.

For a good reference on commands (such has FOR loops), see Programming CMD on Wikibooks. Note that for complicated batch tasks, command-line interpreter may not be sufficient. For more complex batch programming, I encourage you to learn a real scripting language like Python.

Answer 2

There you go:

for %f in (*.png) do echo ^<img src="%f" /^> >> myFileList.txt

Explanation:

for %f in (*.png) do <command>

A simple loop for all files in the current directory which match *.png.

echo ^<img src="%f" /^> >> myFileList.txt

Echo the string into the file (redirect output via >>, this will append to the file. > will truncate the file). ^ is need to escape the <.