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Mason Evans
Mason Evans

Reputation: 141

How to use command line to pull file names from a network drive

I am wanting to use the command line to output a list of file names to a CSV, but the files are on a network drive.

On my computer I have a folder of movies on my D: drive. By changing the directory in command line and using dir /b > Movies.csvI can obtain a list of all movie titles in that directory. However, we now have a WD NAS box with all of our movies in it and I would like to somehow use command line to pull an updated csv of movie names from it. Since it's no longer on one of my drives in my computer, I am unsure of how to do this.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 41280

Answers (2)

Steve Rindsberg
Steve Rindsberg

Reputation: 14809

Simplest thing would be to map a drive letter to the shared drive on the NAS box using Windows Explorer. Then you could do:

dir /b z:\foldername*.* > movies.csv

But the NAS box probably has a name on the network.

Do a NET VIEW command to get a list of connected computers

Suppose the name of your NAS box shows up as NASty

You'd then do NET VIEW \NASTY to get a list of shared resources on the NAS box.

Suppose one of them is moviefolder, identified as a Disk

You could then do

dir /b \nasty\moviefolder*.* > movies.csv

This being Windows, upper/lowercase doesn't make any difference.

Upvotes: 0

Matthijs
Matthijs

Reputation: 1152

Assuming you are talking about windows because you speak of a "D:" drive. You can do the following:

net use X: \\NAS\Share

This will "mount" the \NAS\Share folder to drive "X". Because it is now a drive you can just use regular commands to "cd" to it and then "dir /b > file.csv"

You can also look at https://superuser.com/a/52237/286811 if you do not want a permanent mounted drive.

Even better, I just found out this is also possible

dir /b \\NAS\share

Upvotes: 10

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