Quick DOS Question

ianmc38

I'm trying to print a list of folders and subfolders from one of my drives into a textfile.

At the moment I'm using:

dir /s /on *.* > Tree.txt

The one problem with this is it's also printing the files contained in each directory. Is there any way to print the folder names only?

Thanks.

mick.fr

dir /s /ad

WetDaddy

Man, it's been a while since I worked with DOS, but you could try removing the second asterisk in your 'file' listing parameter. So, something like this:

dir /s /on *. > Tree.txt

That has the potential to also give you files without extensions, mind you. But these aren't too common on Windows / DOS systems, with the exception of things like the hosts file.

If you're happy enough manually removing a few, go with that. Otherwise, if you want a GUARANTEED directory-only listing, there's probably a switch with dir you can use. Either that, or maybe specifiy a filesize of 0 or something?

WetDaddy

mick.fr wrote:

dir /s /ad

Yep, that'll do it better than my way That'll teach me to try and be the first to answer a techy post!

But hey, maybe you learned something from me. Like to call them directories, and not folders, and to keep doing it as get older and appear wizened & cantankerous.

Oh, by the way, you might want to put in: /adh (notice the extra 'h') to show you any hidden directories too, if desired.

Alun

deathfunk wrote:

Oh, by the way, you might want to put in: /adh (notice the extra 'h') to show you any hidden directories too, if desired.

Actually dir /adh will show you only the hidden directories, dir /ad will show all of them (including the hidden ones). All it's doing is showing those directory entries that match all of the given attributes on the /a switch.

ianmc38

Thanks for the info. Micks suggestion worked perfectly for me!