Outputting directory contents to text files...

Is it possible to output the names of the files in a directory to a text file?

 

Certainly is!
you use the dir command in command line, hang on, i forget what the exact command is and its not in the help of "dir"

sorry, that was pretty useless wasnt it. Adryn will probably know though!

 

If I want to show the directory output of my C: drive, it would be:


At a C: prompt:

dir > c:\directory.txt


This puts the output in a file called directory.txt on the C drive.

 

The output:

Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 2C8C-9E1A

Directory of C:\

03/02/2004 10:22 PM <DIR> ATI
03/02/2004 08:45 PM 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
03/30/2004 08:23 AM 192 BcBtRmv.log
03/02/2004 08:45 PM 0 CONFIG.SYS
03/09/2004 03:56 PM <DIR> Console
04/03/2004 11:48 AM 0 directory.txt
03/02/2004 08:49 PM <DIR> Documents and Settings
03/08/2004 09:44 AM 30,746 drivers.txt
03/24/2004 11:17 AM <DIR> Games
03/02/2004 01:36 PM <DIR> Hotfixes
03/02/2004 01:36 PM <DIR> Java
03/09/2004 06:20 PM <DIR> mpad35
03/02/2004 09:59 PM <DIR> NVIDIA
03/02/2004 01:36 PM <DIR> Powertoys
04/01/2004 10:39 AM <DIR> Program Files
03/02/2004 01:36 PM <DIR> Resource Kit
03/02/2004 01:36 PM <DIR> Screensavers
03/11/2004 10:45 AM 186,570 Setup.inx
04/03/2004 11:48 AM 24 tmp.bat
03/03/2004 09:28 PM <DIR> UT2003
04/02/2004 11:45 PM <DIR> WINDOWS
03/03/2004 12:46 AM <DIR> WUTemp
10/21/2002 07:32 PM 2,048 xpboot.bin
03/25/2004 10:22 PM <DIR> Yz dock
8 File(s) 219,580 bytes
16 Dir(s) 61,990,797,312 bytes free

 

And with that, I am off to Phoenix for SW Geekfest

 

Oh, I am so ashamed I have become so used Graphical Interfaces that I forgot all about my DOS roots!

Thanks and have fun geeking it up!

 

Ahh, it all comes back to me now. BTW that works with any command, so that if you wanted to say output your IP config settings to a text file, ipconfig > c:\ipconfig.txt would work. Rather useful if you ask me! Specially for keeping logs of scheduled tasks...