An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line Creating Text Files Using Batch Script By: JudagoJanuary 16, 2011Specifically for cmd.exe on Windows Operating Systems. It is a common occurrence in the Programming Forum to see questions related to creating text files with a batch script, be it to create a secondary script or a particular format of text file. This "How-To" will attempt to outline all of the information needed to create files successfully. Cmd/Bat scripting by default creates ANSI encoded text files unless cmd.exe was started with the "/U" switch, in which case in will create Unicode formatted text files(Without a byte-order-mark). Redirection Creating text files in batch is easy, there are two main operators: ">" - Output the command to file, overwrite it if it already exists, otherwise create it. ">>" - Output the command to file, append to the end of the file it if it already exist, otherwise create it. Examples: rem output the dir command to file, overwrite the file if it already exists.dir > "somefile.txt" rem Equivilant to above> "somefile.txt" dir Empty Lines
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batch Moving all files in 100s of folders up one folder Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - a centralized code sample library - Home Create a text file using user input from a batch file - Super User Create a text file of the contents of a directory in Windows Explorer | Notes Tested on 2 October 2007 using Windows XP Professional and on 3 August 2012 using Windows 7 The following guide will show how to output the contents of a directory to a text file for saving, printing or editing. Method 1 - Using a batch file to create the text file: Create a new file in a text editor (i.e. open Notepad) Insert the following text into the file: dir /a /b /-p /o:gen >C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt start notepad C:\WINDOWS\Temp\file_list.txt Save the file as File List Generator.bat To show the contents of a directory (folder) in a text file, simply copy or move the File List Generator.bat file into the folder where you want the contents printed and double-click the file. This will save a text file with the contents of the folder and then open it in Notepad. From here you can edit, format and print the contents. Modifying the output of the text file: In the above example the text file simply created a list of the files and folders within the directory. C:\WINDOWS\Temp\
Using a batch file to read from a txt file - Ars Technica OpenForum Runs a specified command for each file in a set of files. FOR %variable IN (set) DO command [command-parameters] %variable Specifies a single letter replaceable parameter. To use the FOR command in a batch program, specify %%variable instead of %variable. If Command Extensions are enabled, the following additional forms of the FOR command are supported: FOR /D %variable IN (set) DO command [command-parameters] If set contains wildcards, then specifies to match against directory names instead of file names. FOR /R [[drive:]path] %variable IN (set) DO command [command-parameters] Walks the directory tree rooted at [drive:]path, executing the FOR statement in each directory of the tree. FOR /L %variable IN (start,step,end) DO command [command-parameters] The set is a sequence of numbers from start to end, by step amount. or, if usebackq option present: filenameset is one or more file names. Some examples might help: FOR /F "eol=; tokens=2,3* delims=, " %i in (myfile.txt) do @echo %i %j %k
Batch Files: Tokens and Delimiters (FOR Loops) By: Matt123October 21, 2010Quite often when writing a batch file, you will come across a FOR loop. It might look something like this: FOR /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a IN (MyFile) DO ECHO %%a I am constantly hearing people asking "What do tokens and delims mean?". Well, here you are. Tokens and delimiters in action Tokens basically tell the batch file where to look to set the variable (%a). A file, called MyFile, contains this: Hello World! Now, let's pretend that we want is the word "World!". FOR /f "tokens=2 delims= " %%a IN (MyFile.txt) DO ECHO %%a Grabbing a range Now let's say that we want the "How are you doing today?" FOR /f 'tokens=3-7 delims= " %%a IN (MyFile.txt) DO ECHO %%a %%b %%c %%d %%e Notice the variables. If I wanted to, I could set all the variables, then just echo %a %c %e, resulting in "How you today?" Variations on a range Now, just because we've decided to become very aggressive, we're going to attempt to get the words "Hello", "How", and "doing". Taking everything Good luck.