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Commands Gallery

The Commands Gallery is a browsable collection of pre-built, ready-to-use commands. It provides a quick way to discover and add commands without building them from scratch.

Screenshot showing commands gallery

Click the "Browse Gallery..." button in the Configure dialog (visible below the command lists). The gallery panel appears within the app alongside the command lists.

The gallery consists of:

  1. Filter box at the top — marked with a magnifying-glass icon; type to filter commands by name, description, or category

  2. Command list — a flat list with inline category headers (bold, non-selectable). Each command shows:

    • Bold command name
    • Smaller description text below
    • "Add to List" or "Select" button on the right

    Commands that would not appear in the context menu for the current File Explorer selection (for example, folder-only commands when no folder is selected) are shown greyed out, so you can see they exist but that they would not apply right now. 3. Clipboard preview at the bottom — shows a live preview of what the selected command would produce with the current file selection

Command Categories

The gallery commands are organised into the following categories:

Filenames

Plain filename output with a few common variations: with or without the file extension, alphabetically sorted, wrapped in double quotes, or joined with a chosen separator (newline, comma, semicolon, space, tab, or pipe). Also includes an "extensions only" command for when you just need the file types.

Paths

Different ways of representing the location of each selected item. Covers full paths in several styles — Windows backslash, forward slash for Unix or URL contexts, and double backslash for string literals in code — together with quoted forms, comma-separated forms, the containing folder path on its own, and shorter relative-style paths that include a chosen number of parent folders. Also provides recursive listings of every file inside selected folders (sorted by name or by path length) and resolves the targets of symbolic links and junctions.

Developer & Technical

Output formats ready to paste straight into source code or a terminal: JSON string arrays, Python lists, C/C++ string-array initialisers, HTML unordered lists, and quoted space-separated command-line arguments.

Folder Listings

Recursive dumps of folder contents in structured formats — plain text, JSON, XML, and Markdown — each preserving the folder/subfolder hierarchy. Also includes a tab-separated folder inventory with path, size, modified date, and SHA-256 checksum, designed to be pasted directly into Excel.

IT & System Administration

Commands aimed at audits and file-integrity work: a size-sorted listing (largest first) for finding space-hogging files, plus checksum generators using CRC32, MD5, SHA-256, SHA-512, and the much faster xxHash64.

Lists & Documentation

Formatted lists and tables for reports and documentation: numbered lists (1. 2. 3.), bulleted lists (using either bullet characters or Markdown's - prefix), a Markdown table with Name/Size/Date columns, a readable file summary line with size and date in parentheses, and a tab-separated file inventory.

Media & Creative

Commands that pull metadata from image, audio, and video files via Windows shell properties. Includes image pixel dimensions, EXIF date taken, music artist and title, track listings (number, artist, title, duration), audio duration, video duration with frame resolution, and an M3U playlist exporter for opening selections directly in media players. Each command is filtered to its relevant file types.

Single File

A family of commands enabled only when exactly one file is selected. They return a single value rather than a list — file size, last-modified date, image dimensions, and the same set of checksums offered in IT & System Administration (CRC32, MD5, SHA-256, SHA-512, xxHash64).

Spreadsheet & Data Formats

Multi-column outputs designed to paste cleanly into Excel or Google Sheets. Includes tab-separated combinations of filename, size, and modified date, the same combinations as quoted CSV, and an auto-numbered file list with a leading index column.

File Actions

Built-in system commands. This category is only shown when viewing the Context Menu commands list, not the Library.

  1. Select a command in the gallery list
  2. Review the clipboard preview to see what it produces
  3. Click "Add to List" to add it to the currently active command list (Context Menu or Library, depending on which tab is selected)

If the command already exists in one of the lists:

  • The command name is shown in green
  • The button changes to "Select" with a tooltip indicating which list contains it
  • Clicking "Select" navigates to that command in its list

Note that you don't need to add commands to the context menu or library commands list to use them. You can simply select them in the gallery then press OK to copy the text to the clipboard.

Filtering

Type in the filter box to narrow the gallery. Filtering matches against:

  • Command name (case-insensitive)
  • Command description (case-insensitive)
  • Category name (case-insensitive)

Category headers are automatically hidden when none of their commands match the filter. A clear button in the filter box resets the filter.

Persistence

The gallery remembers the last selected command across sessions. When reopened, it scrolls to and highlights the previously selected command.