"Pasting" file contents

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Hello. Is there a way to paste contents of certain file (ex., C:\1.txt) as new .txt files in {s}?

i want to copy file's contents. for ex., file 1.txt contains this lines:
Directory Opus 1
Directory Opus 2
Directory Opus 3
...
Directory Opus 1000

i want to create 1000 new .txt files, a copy of "FileType NEW=.txt FROMCLIPBOARD" command, but from file, not clipboard...

the basis of this question is here: DL from YT
may be there is a simpler and smarter way to paste video names from playlist directly to folder as empty .txt files?

2

This will create an empty text file for each line in the clipboard:

(I think both Lxp and I misinterpreted what you wanted to do in the other thread, but it's much clearer now.)

3

i saw this thread. this is not that i need. I can only output video names to .txt file (let's say TEMP file), not to clipboard. Thus, using Paste empty file list, i need to open my .txt (temp) file, copy all its contents and call the script. too many actions...

That's why I requested help in this thread, combining its script with "FileType NEW=.txt FROMCLIPBOARD" command would be the best solution.

4

Try

// https://resource.dopus.com/t/pasting-file-contents/44783

function OnClick(clickData) {
    var cmd = clickData.func.command;
    var tab = clickData.func.sourcetab;
    if (tab.selected_files.count == 0) return;
    var stt = DOpus.Create().StringTools();
    DOpus.SetClip(stt.Decode(tab.selected_files(0).Open().Read(), 'utf8'));
    cmd.RunCommand('FileType NEW=.txt FROMCLIPBOARD');
}
Button as XML 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button backcol="none" display="label" textcol="none">
	<label>44783</label>
	<icon1>#newcommand</icon1>
	<function type="script">
		<instruction>@script JScript</instruction>
		<instruction>// https://resource.dopus.com/t/pasting-file-contents/44783</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>function OnClick(clickData) {</instruction>
		<instruction>    var cmd = clickData.func.command;</instruction>
		<instruction>    var tab = clickData.func.sourcetab;</instruction>
		<instruction>    if (tab.selected_files.count == 0) return;</instruction>
		<instruction>    var stt = DOpus.Create().StringTools();</instruction>
		<instruction>    DOpus.SetClip(stt.Decode(tab.selected_files(0).Open().Read(), &apos;utf8&apos;));</instruction>
		<instruction>    cmd.RunCommand(&apos;FileType NEW=.txt FROMCLIPBOARD&apos;);</instruction>
		<instruction>}</instruction>
	</function>
</button>
5

Thank you too much. This code works better for me:

CopyContent c:\1.txt
FileType NEW=.txt FROMCLIPBOARD

Is there a way to combine MS-DOS button

"C:\Program Files\yt-dlp.exe" -i  --get-filename --flat-playlist  -o "%%(playlist_index)s %%(title)s" {clip} >C:\1.txt

with above Dopus commands to be runnig one by one in one button? like this (but it's not working properly for me):

"C:\Program Files\yt-dlp.exe" -i  --get-filename --flat-playlist  -o "%%(playlist_index)s %%(title)s" {clip} >C:\1.txt

/home\dopusrt.exe CopyContent c:\1.txt
/home\dopusrt.exe FileType NEW=.txt FROMCLIPBOARD

???

6

Putting the DOS button into a user command and using this user command instead of the explicit line should work. Or put everything in a script.

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7

Is the 1.txt file needed after you've created the other files?

If not, you could skip the file creation/reading the file into clipboard and instead pipe the yt-dlp results into the clipboard:
yt-dlp.exe ... | clip and work directly from that.

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8

Ooooooooooooh! no one has given me better advice! Thank you, Man!

9

That thread was about reading one file's contents out of the file and into the clipboard. It didn't involve creating files. That's partly why I was initially confused about what you wanted to do.