Re: Directory listing to text file?


<rschroe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Doug Kanter wrote:
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>> I occasionally need to send a dir listing to a text file. It this only
>> happened often with one directory, I'd edit the path so it would work
>> from
>> the command line. But, it's different each time, so this is a pain to do.
>> Is
>> anyone aware of a utility that somehow gets around this problem?
>
> Very simple - right click in the cmd window - select all - open notepad
> - paste
>

Nice trick, but first you have to navigate to the correct directory. That
involves turning this...
C:\Documents and Settings\Doug\My Documents\My Music

into the version with the tilde symbols, right? If it was always the same
folder, I'd figure out a shortcut. But, it varies a lot.


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