what os - Hao Chen

Do you mean something like what you get if you type "dir > output.txt" from a command prompt (on windows)? - Gus Perez

or ls -l >output.txt in *nix/Mac - clarke thomas

http://www.folderscavenger.com/ on Windows. I've not tried that though so be careful. Why not just do "dir /b > output.txt" ? - Morton Fox

Wouldn't it be great if there were a Dos device name like clip: that you could pipe output to, like LPT: ... - Danny Thorpe

@Danny: Indeed. I guess it would be easy to write a little tool that takes arguments that it then runs and its output is copied to the clipboard (e.g., send2clip dir /b /s *.*). I might even code this up today as I agree it would be useful to have. It wouldn't be as useful as it being a device that can be piped to but close enough to still be useful. - Gus Perez

@Gus: If I could find my Dos black book I'd give the device driver a whirl... - Danny Thorpe

Just posted a new version of ezClip that now has a feature along the lines of what we're talking about. Here's the blog post for it: http://gusperez.com/wp.... - Gus Perez

@Danny: If you're referring to the not-so-small dark gray "MS-DOS Encyclopedia" I'm looking right at it. I'll happily bring it in next time you're in Redmond. - Gus Perez

Just uploaded a new version (last one for now, I promise) that now actually does support piping data directly to it (i.e., 'dir /b | ezclip' now does what you'd think it would do). Here's a link: http://gusperez.com/wp... - Gus Perez