Anybody know how to do this?

[craiganderson]

Greetings. So lets say I have 3000 rom files (these happen to be zipped but doesnt matter) and what I need to do is create a .txt file matching the name of each individual rom/zip file. I can do it one by one but ..ouch!

So in Summary:

I have this

game1.zip

game2.zip

...

game3000.zip

and I need

game1.txt

game2.txt

...

game3000.txt

Is there any automated way to do this?

[craiganderson]

thanks. i do not know how to do that.

but i appreciate the reply

[dougan78]

for /F %f in ('dir *.* /b') do echo. 2>"%f.txt"

Now this will give you a empty text file that is game.zip.txt use Bulk Rename to remove the .zip and good to go. Cheers.

Only take you a couple of minutes.

Oh and if filez have replace the space with underscore with bulkrename. Dos doesnt like spaces.

[craiganderson]

thank you

i do this in command prompt?

sorry for basic question

[dougan78]

Yes. Windows+R. cmd click open. Then you need to switch to the folder you have the zip files cd s:\craigs\files\arein_here\ then run the command assuming you have no spaces.

I always forget not everyone knows dos

[Inquisitom]

In a cmd prompt in the directory where the files are, simply type:

ren *.zip *.txt

[boohiss]

If you don't want to do it manually, I've used this plenty of times to create a text file containing all files inside:

http://www.xptsp.com/fixit/contentlist.php

You just plop the exe file inside whatever folder you want it to list and it creates a txt file. It won't alphabetize it correctly sometimes, but that's not a problem since there's a million ways to do that. I'm lazy and just use the first google hit for an online way to do it .

[dougan78]

If you don't want to do it manually, I've used this plenty of times to create a text file containing all files inside:

http://www.xptsp.com/fixit/contentlist.php

You just plop the exe file inside whatever folder you want it to list and it creates a txt file. It won't alphabetize it correctly sometimes, but that's not a problem since there's a million ways to do that. I'm lazy and just use the first google hit for an online way to do it .

He wants individual txt files named after zip files. This program does a txt file with a list of the files in it. Different than what he wants.

[craiganderson]

[andyco40]

try this mate a batch renamer http://code.google.com/p/batch-file-extension-renamer/

[craiganderson]

try this mate a batch renamer http://code.google.com/p/batch-file-extension-renamer/

i tried something like that

thanks

but the size of the file stays the same.....(ie contents stay in .txt file)

[craiganderson]

edit ...

thanks it worked

what i did

1) replaced spaces with _ using bulk renamer

2) used dougan78 command line

3) used bulk renamer to remove .zip from new name (because it was in name.,..like.....gamea.zip.txt)

4) used bulk renamer to replace _ with spaces

thanks