How do I copy all file names in a folder to notepad?

Question

I often want to copy all the file names with full path and extensions in a folder to a ".txt" document but can't. Is there an easy way to do this? How? Is there a simple batch file that will do it? Freeware might work, but I would rather have a simple batch.bat or .exe file that works.

Answer 1

1. Open up a command prompt

2. Navigate to the directory you want with cd "Documents"

3. dir /B > filelist.txt

4. Open filelist.txt or move it where you want.

My output:

C:\Users\Tom\Documents>dir /B
all.css
BFBC2
Disc Images
Fax
Fiddler2
gegl-0.0
Network Monitor 3
Scanned Documents
SQL Server Management Studio
SweetScape
Virtual Machines
Visual Studio 2010

You can limit to just files with dir /B /A-D. /AD meaning only directories, /A-D means not directories.

Answer 2

(for %F in (*) do @echo %~dpnxF)|sort >filelist.txt will produce sorted list of files (with full paths) in current directory in file called filelist.txt. Change * to whatever directory\path pattern you wish. Be aware that it will include filelist.txt itself if you enumerate current directory so it's better to run from parent dir instead.

Answer 3

Which version of Windows? In Windows 7 at least (ought to work in Win8 as well), you can select the files, press Shift and right-click. Now you'll see a new Copy as path option that you can click on, and then paste the paths in Notepad.