Re: Editable List of Filenames from Windows?

Subject: Re: Editable List of Filenames from Windows?
From: DonaLuisa <donaluisa_nwr -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:54:28 +0000 (UTC)



Thanks for the tips! I am using XP, and I do not have write access to the N:\ directory.Â



I don't know DOS commands, nor the name of my computer. So typing "tree" at the command lineÂis 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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