Print Directory in XP

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Don Schmidt

At this Microsoft site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379 it tells how
to add a Print Directory function to your Windows XP system.

My questions is, instead of "printing" the directory, I'd like it to make a
text file of the directory and it's subdirectories.

I have the dos way of doing it but if you did a print directory of the "C"
drive it would bankrupt you in the paper output. <G>
It's the reason for the text file. One could always print the text file.

Many thanks,
 
dir /s > somefile.txt

The ">" redirects the output to the file "somefile.txt". You can
include a path to another folder before the "somefile.txt."

You can find a lot of other ways to do this by using google. Try
searching for: windows print directories file

Brian
 
Don said:
At this Microsoft site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379 it tells how
to add a Print Directory function to your Windows XP system.

My questions is, instead of "printing" the directory, I'd like it to make a
text file of the directory and it's subdirectories.

I have the dos way of doing it but if you did a print directory of the "C"
drive it would bankrupt you in the paper output. <G>
It's the reason for the text file. One could always print the text file.

Many thanks,
Click to expand...
Change it a little bit and save as Savedir.bat

@echo off
dir %1 /-p /o:gn > "%temp%\Listing"
start /w notepad "%temp%\Listing"
del "%temp%\Listing"
exit
 
Many thanks JD.

I modified your coding a bit so as to also open subdirectories and list
hidden folders.

@echo off
dir %1 /a /s /-p /o:gn > "%temp%\Listing"
start /w notepad "%temp%\Listing"
del "%temp%\Listing"
exit

By making this modification it may cause the Search window to come up
instead of a folder to open but can be readily fixed with Microsoft's fix
found at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321186

A slight oddity occurs after creating the Listing modification, the cmd.exe
window opens in the background but seems no harm done.

Again, thanks I appreciate your help very much.
 
Don said:
At this Microsoft site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379 it tells how
to add a Print Directory function to your Windows XP system.

My questions is, instead of "printing" the directory, I'd like it to make a
text file of the directory and it's subdirectories.

I have the dos way of doing it but if you did a print directory of the "C"
drive it would bankrupt you in the paper output. <G>
It's the reason for the text file. One could always print the text file.

Many thanks,
Click to expand...


From the command prompt (Start > Run > Cmd.exe), simply change to
the desired directory and type "dir > filelist.txt" or "dir > lpt1,"
just as you used to do in DOS. Any of the switches for the DIR command
(type "dir /?") will work with this command, if you wish to modify the
output. You can then subsequently edit the resulting text file using
NotePad, WordPad, Word, etc.


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