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    How to create multiple files from a single text file ?

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    • Robin Cruise
      Robin Cruise last edited by Robin Cruise

      hi. Maybe you could help me. I want create multiple files from a single text file, with the same content. For example, I have a file called laptop.txt I want to multiply this file, in another 120 files with other name, but with the same content.

      laptop.txt

      must become:

      inform.txt
      cd-translate.txt
      keyboard.txt
      books.txt
      ...
      120-line.txt

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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Robin Cruise last edited by Alan Kilborn

        @Robin-Cruise

        So I won’t go too deep into it but your best bet is to use Notepad++ to create a batch file, and then run that batch file outside of N++.

        Start with your “must become” list in a fresh N++ tab:

        inform.txt
        cd-translate.txt
        keyboard.txt
        books.txt
        

        Create a “column caret” in column 1 by using Shift+Alt+arrows (shown in following as thick black/red vertical line – note: yours will look a bit different):

        ef4d8a2a-24d0-4398-bcd8-9771aa9a7314-image.png

        Use the Column Editor (Alt+C) to insert text into every column 1 location, note the trailing space:

        b96e9fd9-e603-49a1-a28a-57d0232cc6f2-image.png

        To end up with this in your tab:

        copy laptop.txt inform.txt
        copy laptop.txt cd-translate.txt
        copy laptop.txt keyboard.txt
        copy laptop.txt books.txt
        

        Save your tab with extension .bat or .cmd in the same folder as laptop.txt. Example name for it would be runme.bat

        Get a command-prompt in that folder (by right-clicking your N++ tab and choosing Open Containing Folder in cmd).

        Type runme in the cmd window and press Enter.

        (It appears I went deep into it)

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        • Robin Cruise
          Robin Cruise last edited by Robin Cruise

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          • Alan Kilborn
            Alan Kilborn @Robin Cruise last edited by

            @Robin-Cruise said in How to create multiple files from a single text file ?:

            I believe it’s not working

            Hmm. What do you think the problem might be?

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            • Robin Cruise
              Robin Cruise last edited by

              WORKS PERFECTLY, thanks !!

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