Creating empty folders or files from a text file

[drbeat]

Hi,
I want to create empty folder or file names from a text file (each line contains one corresponding name) How can I do it?

[Stefan2]

You can do that with any scripting language.
Always depends on what you want to achieve; make absolute paths or create in current active folder?

But how to distinguish, in your list, folders from files?
TC add an trailing backslash on directories:
C:\Windows\Help\en-US\
C:\Windows\Help\en-US\credits.rtf
C:\Windows\Help\mui\0407\cliconf.chm
C:\Windows\Help\mui\0407\mmc.CHM
C:\Windows\Help\mui\0409\
C:\Windows\Help\OEM\ContentStore\
C:\Windows\Help\OEM\IndexStore\

For such a list you can use f.ex. PowerShell (or VBS or AHK or...)



PowerShell: create files and folders from text listfile.txt, create FOLDERs if the line from the listfile has trailing backslash (\), else create FILEs :

Get-Content '.\Your Files list.txt'|ForEach{$N=$_-replace":","_";If($N[-1] -eq '\'){MD $N}else{New-Item -Path . -Name "$N" -ItemType "file" -Value "string if wanted"}}

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Get-Content '.\Your Files list.txt'|
  ForEach{
    $N=$_-replace":","_";
    If($N[-1] -eq '\'){
      MD $N
    }else{
      New-Item -Path . -Name "$N" -ItemType "file" -Value "This is a text string."
    }
}

Or, the other way around:
PowerShell: create files and folders from text listfile.txt, create FILEs if the line from the listfile
has an dot as fourth (.HTM;.JPG) or fifth (.HTML;.JPEG;myFolder.2020\) sign backwards from the end , else create FOLDERs:

Get-Content '.\Files list Dateien liste-1.txt'|ForEach{$N=$_-replace":","_";IF($N[-4..-5] -eq '.'){New-Item -Path . -Name "$N" -ItemType "file" -Value "string if wanted."}else{MD $N}}

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Get-Content '.\Your Files list.txt'|
  ForEach{
    $N=$_-replace":","_";
    IF($N[-4..-5] -eq '.'){
      New-Item -Path . -Name "$N" -ItemType "file" -Value "This is a text string."
    }else{
      MD $N
    }
}

To get no error if file/folder already exists, prefix the command by: $ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue";
Example: $ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"; Get-Content '.\Your Files list.txt'|ForEach{ ... }


We can make an button out of this which will work with the selected filelist.txt, or other things if you want.

Note on MD-command

PS X:\Temp> get-alias md

CommandType Name Version Source
----------- ---- ------- ------
Alias md -> mkdir


PS X:\Temp> get-command mkdir

CommandType Name Version Source
----------- ---- ------- ------
Function mkdir


PS X:\Temp> get-content function:mkdir

<#
.FORWARDHELPTARGETNAME New-Item
.FORWARDHELPCATEGORY Cmdlet
#>

[CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName='pathSet',
. . . .
... ...
. . . . . . read more on your own console window

Help New-Item -Examples

PS C:\> help new-item -exa
PS C:\>New-Item -Path . -Name "testfile1.txt" -ItemType "file" -Value "This is a text string."
PS C:\>New-Item -Path "c:\" -Name "logfiles" -ItemType "directory" <<<<< Short: md "C:\logfiles"

What do you think about that?

[drbeat]

Wow very complicated issue than I thought. I found a tool called Text2Folders. I copy folder and file names then add to text file and create them as folder successful. I think this tool is enough for me. Thank you very much for your extensive work and sorry for taking your time.

[Hacker]

Or, well, if you have a list of folders:

FolderList.txt:

• Folder1
• Folder2
• Folder3

you prepend an "md" before the folder names in a text editor of your choice and rename the file to .cmd:

FolderList.cmd:

• md Folder1
• md Folder2
• md Folder3

and then click on FolderList.cmd. As for creating files, you could use . > this way:

FileList.cmd:

• . > File1
• . > File2
• . > File3

This, however, assumes, that you can split the lists into a file list and a folder list.

HTH
Roman

[drbeat]

Thank you very much Hacker.