Urgent DOS question for oldies!

[Gollom]

Can anybody remember the old DOS command which allowed me to direct a directory structure into a text file?

Was it something like more ¦ list.txt

 

[W210 Fan]

tree - visual directory structure
You often need to take prints of your physical directory structure but XP has no simple "visual" commands for printing directory contents. Here, try the Tree DOS command and redirect the output to a text file.

tree > mydirectory.txt
print mydirectory.txt

 

[purplegoddess]

nope but ring paul he just may well know

 

[Ted]

try 'dir > filename'

oops - I think 210 fan has the right answer (if you need all directories)

 

[Gollom]

Remembered - used what Ted said but with /s

Thanks all!

 

[Gollom]

tree - visual directory structure
You often need to take prints of your physical directory structure but XP has no simple "visual" commands for printing directory contents. Here, try the Tree DOS command and redirect the output to a text file.

tree > mydirectory.txt
print mydirectory.txt

But this gives a better result

Addded /f to include all files in the directory

tree /f >myfile.txt

What a forum!

 

[Ted]

> is the redirect symbol which will redirect standard output to somewhere else (usually a file)

| is the pipe symbol which 'pipes' output from one command into another so 'dir' (or in unix) 'ls | more' will take the output fro lhe dir/ls command and put it to the more (paging) command.

 

[High-Lo]

Would have loved to have seen this earlier. I am still a heavy user of DOS

 

[Dieselman]

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[W210 Fan]

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