what is zzzFiles?
Have you ever wanted to generate a list of your files in a directory? perhaps you wanted to give the name of your favorite songs to your friend or perhaps a list of your recently pirated movies. either case you'll soon notice that there's no menu or button for that.
For me it was the need to insert a list of projects I was working on into google sheet that made me notice the lack of this function in windows OS. there was a way to generate a list using command line but it didn't give me a clean list of folders, this made me write this small script to all listing power to my arsenal of common tools.
If you're not reading this post in utopian.io , you can download it from: Kiaazad/zzzFiles
how to:
zzzFiles.exe will generate a list of all files and folders in the directory it is in. simply copy the file to your folder, and double click it.
it will create a text file with the same name containing the list of your files and folders.
then you can delete the .exe file if you want.
Why the odd name?
Since the script lists every file in the directory, it will list itself as well, the zzz keeps the file at the bottom of the directory and the bottom of generated list, this way you can easily find the file in the folder and it's name in the list for easy removal.
How to compile .au3 files
In case you want to compile the script into an exe file yourself, you can download and install Autoit from AutoIt website then download the .au3 file from the repositories, Open the file in the editor and go to tools > compile menu, it will generate an executable file in the same folder for you.
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