How To Print A List Of All Files In A Windows Directory

How To Print A List Of All Files In A Windows Directory

In this video I’m going to mention a way to generate a directory listing: using the command line.

If your needs are very simple, the command line method is the easiest and doesn’t require any additional tools.

The commands are :

[kurtgoodwin]

very helpful thanks. i forget that some of the old DOS commands are still available underneath WIndows. Many thanks - clear and concise

[VBugatti]

Compliments of a clear and concise explanation.

[emanuelcastro]

Wonderful tutorial! I am trying to format my hard drive, so having a concise list of all my files and its directories is a great help.

[deverypierce]

Thank you for the detailed explanations and speaking slowly!

[SirOreo]

Wonderful. Good teaching. How about the following? I often am interested in getting the listing of files in all the subdirectories whose names match a name string. For example, there are various subdirectories parent directories. These subdirectories in turn have subdirectories, one of which repeats in name. The name of these repeating subdirectories is “ InputFile”. So, I like to get a listing of all the files found in all the subdirectories named “InputFile” along with the files’s directory path. Any way to do that?

[ffmedic]

Are there any other switches that can be used in the string for other sorting purposes, or other things?

[castillelarkin]

Hi! This looks great. I can run "cd" and "dir" okay by themselves. But as soon as I try anything else I get error messages.
"dir : Cannot find path 'C:\b' because it does not exist..."
"dir : Cannot find path 'C:\[directory of subfolder]\File List.txt' because it does not exist."
Any time a folder has a space, I put the whole directory in "double quotes" .
Any ideas on what went wrong?
I am running Powershell as Admin on a Windows 10 Pro

[garylillich]

How do you open the Command line to type cmd? You lost me there