Hi guys!

Instead of creating a batch file...

How do I create several files with differnt names at once....seen many how to's for directories but not actual documents?

 

bookie32

 

1 hour ago, bookie32 said:

Hi guys!

Instead of creating a batch file...

How do I create several files with differnt names at once....seen many how to's for directories but not actual documents?

 

bookie32

What do you mean?

"Random" files?

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/3-ways-create-random-dummy-files-windows-given-size

or

http://www.bertel.de/software/rdfc/index-en.html

jaclaz

Hi jaclaz

Yes...that can work.....

I was thinking on the lines of:

dir > text.txt text1.txt text2.txt

I just wondered how I could create several documents at once with just one line of code...

 

bookie32

I will try again:

WHAT do you want to do?

You don't pay a fee per word posted, DESCRIBE in DETAIL what you need/want, otherwise you will only have people attempting to help you lose their time in guesses.

A one liner that creates an arbitrary number of  files (10 in this example, each containing the text "File" followed by the same progressive number that is also added to the filename) :

FOR /L %? IN (1,1,10) DO ECHO File%?>text%?.txt

jaclaz

 

OK not following:

I cannot write the code as shown:

dir > text.txt text1.txt text2.txt

instead of writing:

dir > text.txt 

and then:

dir > text1.txt 

And so on...how do I write one line of code that creates all three files?

 

bookie32

58 minutes ago, bookie32 said:

OK not following:

I cannot write the code as shown:

 

No. (You can actually "write the code as shown" but the result upon execution won't be three files).

1 hour ago, bookie32 said:

And so on...how do I write one line of code that creates all three files?

 

You can use a FOR /L loop, as shown.

Or, if you literally want three files called text.txt, text1.txt and text2.txt, all of them with the same content, the output of the command DIR:

dir>text.txt&dir>text1.txt&dir>text2.txt

almost the same result:

FOR /L %? IN (0,1,2) DO DIR>text%?.txt

actually the same result:

DIR>text.txt&FOR /L %? IN (1,1,2) DO COPY text.txt text%?.txt

jaclaz

Or maybe like this :

dir > text.txt & copy /y text.txt text1.txt & copy /y text.txt text2.txt

Hi guys😀

Thanks for the help...😁

bookie32