another quiz: filter challenge

[nikos]

reminds me of fireside chat situations where everybody tries to open beer bottles with socks... but still a fork or can opener is the best bet!

[BRX]

but when I tried it I could not get it to work

It might work, but not when you have all your files in the scrap container. In that case you should use

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copy "$F" "c:\extensions\extensions.$E" 

Notice the '$F' instead of '$N'.
The thing I don't like about it, is that it might need a lot of free disc space, in order to copy the files. I'd suggest  

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md "c:\extensions\$E"

to put in the command script, while you have all files selected.
Clicking on 'Execute (DOS)', You should get a folder full of empty folders, named after the extensions of selected files (one of each extension). Of these you could get a list using 'copy columns'.

Duh, I feel a bit stupid. I can think of some more tweaks with hardlinks, creating 0byte files etc for solving space or time problems.

But I didn't recall we actually had the solution for the problem already in our "count extensions" challenge

http://forum.zabkat.com/viewtopic.php?p=38226

and my solution there (with creating dirs instead of files) can of course be used for determination of the extensions here as well (and better as my other suggestions.

[Mr.Pleasant]

we actually had the solution for the problem already in our "count extensions" challenge

That is also true of fireside chat situations: the more beer bottles gets opened, the more likely you start repeating things  :oops: