How can I make a text file with paths to all my files of a given extension?

Answer 1

dir /S /B *.php

Answer 2

You can use built-in DOS commands like so:

cd /d "[base-directory]" && dir /s /b *.php > [list file]

e.g.

cd /d "c:\my files" && dir /s /b *.php > c:\list.txt

Answer 3

If the simple:

dir /S /B *.php > output.txt

is not sufficient then Total Commander will certainly do the task. The multi rename tool in Total Commander is excelent.

Answer 4

Open a command prompt, cd to the folder you want to find files in and run

dir *.html /B /S > somefile.txt

then look in somefile.txt

(looks like I lose the race .... !)

Answer 5

If you don't mind installing Cygwin, the following one-liner will do the find-and-replace:

find basedir -name \*.php -exec sed -i 's/text-to-find/text-to-replace/g' '{}' '+'

sed also support regular expressions, so the text-to-find can be a regex, and the text-to-replace can contain references to groups fro the pattern text.