create folder from a list

Question

i need to create a personal folder for each user of my company.

I've tried to create a batch script using ND command and it works just with name folder without . (dot)

The name of each folder should be name.surname

   ND jonny.green,
   micheal.fox,
   laura.young

Do you have some suggestion ?

My windows CMD does not even know the command "nd". Where did you get this? Is it part of Windows? — Tobias, May 18 '16 at 08:20

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '16 at 08:44

If you already have a file with the usernames, this is pretty easy with Powershell (which is integrated with Windows since Windows 7/2008R2):

Get-Content yourfilewithusernames.txt | %{New-Item -ItemType Directory $_}

Basically, you get the content of the file and pass it to the pipeline; then, for each element/line (operator %), you create a new folder which name will be the content of that line (operator $_).

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '16 at 07:17

create file lists.txt for all users that you need to create folder
copy and save as FolderMaker.cmd

SET _dest=P:\PersonalFolders

SET _script=C:\Scripts path=C:\Windows\System32\

for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (%_script%\list.txt) do md %_dest%\%%a

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create folder from a list

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