how to print list of files without typing them?

hello everyone...this is my question: how can i print (or save as text file) a list of files without having to type them? thanks in advance for any help...

 

Do you mean like speak in a mic and have windows type what you said?
If so then try speech recognition i think it comes with Office XP, i tried it before it's hard to get the computer to know what you said, it's much easier to just type it

 

no...i'm not talking about speech recognition or anything like that...i'm talking about regular files from a folder. - example: i want to print a cover for an audio cd that i burned. on that cover i want to print the song titles which are part of a certain folder. can i print that list of songs without typing them? ( a "copy and paste" sort of thing...) thanks

 

You can use a cmd prompt (cmd.exe) to navigate to the folder.

Then type dir > list.txt

Open the file, it will be saved in the current directory then print it.

You get something that looks like this:



Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Jeremy\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Slechtvalk\At The Dawn Of War


03/06/2006 12:58 PM 4,773,741 01 Intro.m4a
03/06/2006 12:59 PM 11,816,136 02 Thunder Of War.m4a
03/06/2006 12:59 PM 7,384,597 03 Of Slumber And Death.m4a
03/06/2006 01:00 PM 10,815,156 04 War Of The Ancients.m4a
03/06/2006 01:00 PM 4,817,725 05 Under A Moonlit Sky.m4a
03/06/2006 01:00 PM 8,976,230 06 Call To Arms.m4a
03/06/2006 01:00 PM 5,853,308 07 Whispers In The Dark.m4a
03/06/2006 01:00 PM 7,205,127 08 Desertion.m4a
03/06/2006 01:01 PM 4,811,758 09 Besieged.m4a
03/06/2006 01:01 PM 8,856,925 10 In Paradisum.m4a
03/06/2006 01:01 PM 6,963,744 11 Cries Of The Haunted.m4a
12/16/2006 12:02 PM 0 list.txt

 

thanx adrynalyne. it worked!

 

If you just want the titles you might try using dir /b > dirlist.txt

If you Open Notepad and type just the above text in the file and save as type .bat you can just double click it to get your file listing w/o going to cmd.

 

Glad I could help