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I'm looking for a way to select a file, such as a setup.exe file and click a custom button that will automatically create a text file of the same name, i.e. setup.txt.

To be clear, if another example was that the file i selected was skype.exe then clicking the custom button would create a text file named skype.txt.

And could work for any file type such as lovesongs.mp3 - the button would create a lovesongs.txt file.

Hope this makes sense please reply if you need more clarification. Thanks.

For the custom command use this:

cmd /c echo > "%2.txt"

OR

cmd /c type NUL > "%2.txt"

Note that this creates files named Setup.exe.txt, Skype.exe.txt, and Lovesongs.mp3.txt.

I don't know of a way to omit the original file name's extension.

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Thanks GauravK,

I like the 2nd example a lot because it creates a text file that is blank.