Hey guys hows it going.. A friend had asked me some help with a dos batch file. he wanted one where he could enter the dir to scan for mp3's and put it into a text file. Here is the code:

Code:

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@echo off

set /P dir=Directory: %=%
set /p file=Output File Name: %=%

dir /s /w /b %dir%\*.mp3 > %file%

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Is there a way to get this to not show the dir's in front of the file names? Thanks guys!

Replacing the /b flag with /n will remove the directory names from the file names, but will show the files in several columns rather than a single column. Don't know if this is any help

Try this:

Code:

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@echo off

set /P dir=Directory: %=%
set /p file=Output File Name: %=%
FOR /R %dir% %%i IN (*.mp3) DO @echo %%~nxi >> %file%

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It's slower, but should work.

EDIT: Also note that if the same output filename is used again, it will append to that file instead of overwriting it. That's pretty easily fixable though.

Thank you for the replies! HE was able to get it where he wanted with these posts!