Printing Directory Listings with the Command Line


	Printing Directory Listings with the Command Line

forkyfork

3-1-2007 2:00 PM

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Nifty little windows trick to print out a directory listing to a text file. No software necessary.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/624f5505-50dd-4e5c-ac2b-e29fc5047e9d/4033901D-F0E8-4C7B-B168-D3A97990EDC1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html" href="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.windowsdevcenter.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><H2>
Printing Directory Listings</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html">How can I print a list of titles of these files?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.windowsdevcenter.com/img/93811DE0-8343-46AD-9164-84452D7BA16B" alt="Figure 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><P>The simplest way is to use the good old <CODE>dir</CODE> command with the <CODE>/b</CODE> switch to suppress everything except the filenames. For example, to display the names of files in <I>C:\Sonnets</I>, you do the following:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><CODE>C:\&gt;dir c:\sonnets /b</CODE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><P>You can either redirect the output to a text file with:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><CODE>dir c:\sonnets /b &gt; titles.txt</CODE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><P>Or you can redirect it to your default printer with:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><CODE>dir c:\sonnets /b &gt; prn</CODE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><P>If you don't want to open a command-prompt window first, you can simply go to Start -&gt; Run and type:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><CODE>cmd /c dir c:\sonnets /b &gt; lpt1</CODE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><P>If the directory you want to list contains subdirectories, you can use <CODE>tree</CODE> instead of <CODE>dir</CODE>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html"><CODE>cmd /c tree c:\sonnets /f &gt; lpt1</CODE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/04/print_directories.html">Using the Command Line</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4033901D-F0E8-4C7B-B168-D3A97990EDC1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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