Replacing many files with zero-bytes clone ?

[albator]

Hi, does someone know a dos command, script, software that can help me replace a bunch of file in a directory with file with the same name but empty ones ? (zero bytes)

Any help appreciated

[jcarle]

Saving an empty text file in notepad will produce a zero byte file which you can rename to whatever filename you'd like.

[albator]

I know, but how to do it with multiple files ?

[DigeratiPrime]

I got a messy solution but it will work

Use a program like DirLister or LS to export a list of the filenames you need to create empty clones of.

Use Excel or any spreadsheet and paste "copy nul" or "type nul >"into a cell and fill it down the column the same number of files you are going to need. Then import that list into the next column. Concatenate and then copy paste that into a bat file. For Example:

create_empty_files.bat

copy nul name1.ext
copy nul name2.ext
copy nul name3.ext
copy nul name4.ext
copy nul name5.ext

[jftuga]

I wrote a program to do just this a long time ago. It uses python, from www.python.org.

http://www.fcs.uga.edu/~john/blog/scripts/...e_struct.py.txt

I just tested it and it still works, too.

-John

Edited December 6, 2006 by jftuga

[velos]

Try this bat file

empty_files.bat

for %%f in (*.txt;*.exe) do copy nul "%%f"

You can change (*.txt;*.exe) to something else, for example (*.*) if you want this to work for all files

[albator]

Thank all for your help.