Comments on: Copying Windows Directory Information Into a Spreadsheet?

By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:37:29 +0000

mike: that would have been a great idea, but fortunately wasn’t necessary. we got the data we needed using the trial of the app here:

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/14782.html

didn’t work particularly fast, but it got the job done.

thanks to everyone who wrote in with suggestions.

By: Mike Dolan

Mike Dolan — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:21:30 +0000

Why not access the shared drive from a Linux box and write a shell script to list/parse what you need? Like parse an “ls -l” output and dump it into a CSV text file. Open it in OO or Excel.

By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:53:43 +0000

thanks guys - i’ll try these, after i try one of a couple of directory printer applications that seem to be able to read and dump the drive contents. they probably, now that i think about it, leverage the exact things you’re discussing.

By: Fraxas

Fraxas — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:07:05 +0000

Search the extended MSDN documentation on the Shell scripting object. I’m sure there’s a way to iterate over files with it — you can even use JScript rather than VBasic if you want. The last time I ran into Windows scripting was coming up with a shell script tha would open the Run dialog — something I need to do because Toshiba hates me, and put the Windows key in the top right of the keyboard and put the Fn key where Win should be. Luckily it came with a utility for binding Fn+arbitrarykeystroke to an executable.

here’s some VB that creates a shell object you can operate on to get at files and things, and use as a hook for grovelling around MSDN:

Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject(”Shell.Application”)

By: Rohit Sankaran

Rohit Sankaran — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:30:33 +0000

This /might/ be possible, if you have +wx on the directory. Make a batch file with the code listing below and execute it?

dir [whatever switches] :gn >filelisting.txt

Then you can view filelisting.txt on Firefox.

Then again I might be way off base.