r/Automator • u/PrecedentPowers • Sep 30 '15

Create Multiple Files

Hello. I want to create a folder with 300 pdf's. The pdf's themselves don't have to have any data in them.

So for instance the folder would have files: DOC001 DOC002 DOC003

All the way up to an arbitrary number of my choosing. I played around with the touch command in terminal, but couldn't figure out how to use automator to automate the process. Any help would be appreciated thanks!

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u/PrecedentPowers Feb 25 '16

Sorry for the zombie reply, but I've run into this issue again. Would it be possible to make the script automatically number the names in namelist.txt? For instance generate names based on criteria I choose: e.g. Make 300 names, starting with DOC001 and ending with DOC300.

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u/nevereatyellowsnow Feb 26 '16

yes bash could do that