How to copy file paths including extension into .txt file

Question

For example in a folder named sample there are 3 images namely img1.jpg & img2.jpg & img3.jpg

I want to copy all the paths of all images to a .txt file

content of .txt will be

C:/sample/img1.jpg
C:/sample/img2.jpg
C:/sample/img3.jpg

Answer 1

Run this in your directory that you want to tree. It extends the path name.

> "dirs.txt" (for %A in (*) do echo %~fA)

Edited in regards to aschipfl's comments

Answer 2

I would start here: http://ss64.com/nt/for_d.html . This link shows how to iterate through files. in the example you can use this and modify for output to a file. The second one is a starting point for output.

FOR /D /r %G in ("User*") DO Echo We found %G 
FOR /D /r %G in ("User*") DO Echo "We found %G" >> C:\test.txt

Answer 3

You can use the dir command with recursion and bare format option like so

dir /s /b *.jpg > files.txt

Reference:

http://ss64.com/nt/dir.html

Answer 4

Clayton Wahlstrom's answer is a good start, but it can be improved:

• every single item/line is redirected individually, because the >> operator is placed in the body of the for loop; however, redirecting all data once would improve the overall performance;
• the used redirection syntax causes every line to contain a trailing SPACE , because there is one before the >> redirection operator;
• you need to ensure that dirs.txt does not yet exist or is empty initially, because the >> redirection appends data if applicable;
• I recommend to use upper-case for loop variables, to be able to distinguish them from the ~ modifiers;

To overcome all these issues, just put the entire for loop into parentheses () and do the redirection > once only, like this:

> "dirs.txt" (for %A in (*) do echo %~fA)