The windows commandline also known as cmd provides the cli interaction to the windows operating system.
The Windows powershell which has been recently made opensource provides cross platform compatibility and can also be installed on Linux OS.
The command to create a file in Powershell:
PS /home/vamshi> New-Item -ItemType file testfile.txt
There is another simpler way to create a file in windows and also used often in Linux/Unix
PS /home/vamshi> echo " " > testfile2.txt
PS /home/cloud_user> dir Directory: /home/vamshi Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- ----- 04/25/2020 07:40 2 testfile.txt ----- 04/25/2020 07:40 2 testfile2.txt
Command to create a Directory in Powershell.
PS /home/vamshi>New-Item -ItemType directory testDir.
How to create multiple files in Windows using Command-line?
Write down the list of all filenames in a file filenames.txt as below:
PS /home/vamshi> cat filenames.txt file1 file2 file3 file4
To achieve this we have to create a for loop.
PS /home/vamshi> cat filenames.txt | foreach-object -process { echo "" > $_ }
PS /home/cloud_user> dir Directory: /home/vamshi Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- ----- 04/25/2020 07:49 1 file1 ----- 04/25/2020 07:49 1 file2 ----- 04/25/2020 07:49 1 file3 ----- 04/25/2020 07:49 1 file4
The foreach command can be used along with New-Item -ItemType as below:
PS /home/vamshi> cat filenames.txt | foreach-object -process { New-Item -ItemType file $_ }
Create multiple Directories in windows:
PS /home/vamshi> cat ./dirs.txt dir1 dir2 dir3
PS /home/vamshi> cat ./newdirs.txt | foreach-object -process { New-Item -ItemType directory $_ }
PS /home/vamshi> dir
Directory: /home/vamshi
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 04/25/2020 07:54 dir1
d---- 04/25/2020 07:54 dir2
d---- 04/25/2020 07:54 dir3