Re: Editable List of Filenames from Windows?

[Cheryl Magadieu <cmagadieu -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Here's another example of how to use the TREE command. I have a directory on
my computer with this path:

c:/Projects/QA/TestPlans/United

I want to print a list of the directory contents to a text file, so I use
this TREE command:

c:/Projects/QA/TestPlans/United>tree.txt /F

The results are saved to the tree.txt file on my c: drive.

If you want a listing of the contents of a network directory, replace the
first c with the letter for the network drive.

Cheryl

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM, DonaLuisa <donaluisa_nwr -at- comcast -dot- net>wrote:

>
>
> Oh my stars, that worked!
>
>
>
> Previously didn't get the bit about the greater than symbol.
>
>
>
> I was able to open in Excel as text delimited so I could edit out unneeded
> data.
>
>
>
> Thank you, and happy Friday.
>
>
>
> -Donna
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Lauriston" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 4:06:04 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: Editable List of Filenames from Windows?
>
> Add this after any command to route the output into a text file:
>
> > c:\<some directory>\<some filename>.txt
>
> E.g.:
>
> tree > c:\treeout.txt
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM, DonaLuisa <donaluisa_nwr -at- comcast -dot- net>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for the tips! I am using XP, and I do not have write access to the
> > N:\ directory.
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't know DOS commands, nor the name of my computer. So typing "tree"
> at
> > the command line is getting me some lovely stuff scrolling by, but I'm
> > missing how I get it into a text file.
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, typing dir, the directory path, and /a:d /b displayed great stuff
> on
> > the command line screen, exactly what I want, but how do I get this into
> a
> > text file?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Donna
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Lauriston" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> > To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> > Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 3:22:17 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> > Subject: Re: Editable List of Filenames from Windows?
> >
> > The TREE command might be more appropriate to this task.
> >
> > If you don't have write access to the network directory, use something
> like:
> >
> > tree > c:\scratch\tree.txt
> >
> > You might want to add some more switches to DIR:
> >
> > dir /a:d /s /b
> >
> > /a:d = directories only
> > /s = include all subdirectories
> > /b = bare format
> >
> > Do tree /? or dir /? for more switches.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> >> The command line method:
> >>
> >> Start > Run > CMD > [ENTER]
> >>
> >> CD \\*{computer_name}*\*{filepath*
> >> <file://%7bcomputer_name%7d/%7Bfilepath>*
> >> }*
> >> **
> >> DIR /S *. > *{Local_filename}*.txt
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM, DonaLuisa
> >> <donaluisa_nwr -at- comcast -dot- net>wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I am on a PC using Windows. From My Computer I can navigate to a
> network
> >>> directory, and nested in a subfolder is a list of sub-subfolders. I
> would
> >>> love a quick way of putting that list of of folder names in an Office
> >>> application, like Excel or Word.
> > ...
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