This is probably a very simple question, but I'm having trouble with it.
I am trying to write a Batch File and I need it to list all the files in a certain directory. The dir command will do this, but it also gives a bunch of other information; I want it to list ONLY the file names and exclude anything else.
I just want the output to look like this:
file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt The full command is:
dir /b /a-d Let me break it up;
Basically the /b is what you look for.
/a-d will exclude the directory names.
For more information see dir /? for other arguments that you can use with the dir command.
dir /b /a-d > tmp.txt
/S to get file names of sub-directories also.
/a-d will the exclude directory names?
dir /B /A-D /SYou can also try this:
for %%a in (*) do echo %%a Using a for loop, you can echo out all the file names of the current directory.
To print them directly from the console:
for %a in (*) do @echo %a 
where instead dir?In command line:
for /f tokens^=* %i in ('where .:*')do @"%~nxi" In bat/cmd file:
@echo off for /f tokens^=* %%i in ('where .:*')do %%~nxi file_0003.xlsx file_0001.txt file_0002.log where .:* G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\file_0003.xlsx G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\file_0001.txt G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\file_0002.log For recursively:
where /r . * G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\file_0003.xlsx G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\file_0001.txt G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\file_0002.log G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\Sub_dir_001\file_0004.docx G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\Sub_dir_001\file_0005.csv G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\Sub_dir_001\file_0006.odt for /f tokens^=* %i in ('where .:*')do @echo/ Path: %~dpi ^| Name: %~nxi @echo off for /f tokens^=* %%i in ('where .:*')do echo/ Path: %%~dpi ^| Name: %%~nxi Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\ | Name: file_0003.xlsx Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\ | Name: file_0001.txt Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\ | Name: file_0002.log In command line:
for /f tokens^=* %i in ('where /r . *')do @echo/ Path: %~dpi ^| Name: %~nxi In bat/cmd file:
@echo off for /f tokens^=* %%i in ('where /r . *')do echo/ Path: %%~dpi ^| Name: %%~nxi Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\ | Name: file_0003.xlsx Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\ | Name: file_0001.txt Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\ | Name: file_0002.log Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\Sub_dir_001\ | Name: file_0004.docx Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\Sub_dir_001\ | Name: file_0005.csv Path: G:\SO_en-EN\Q23228983\Sub_dir_001\ | Name: file_0006.odt Some further reading:
[√] Where
[√] Where sample
1.Open notepad
2.Create new file
3.type bellow line
dir /b > fileslist.txt 4.Save "list.bat"
Thats it. now you can copy & paste this "list.bat" file any of your folder location and double click it, it will create a "fileslist.txt" along with that directory folder and file name list.
Sample Output: 
Note: If you want create file name list along with sub folder, then you can create batch file with bellow code.
dir /b /s > fileslist.txt 
dir line use del fileslist.txt
dir /b /a-dIf you need the subdirectories too you need a "dir" command and a "For" command
dir /b /s DIRECTORY\*.* > list1.txt for /f "tokens=*" %%A in (list1.txt) do echo %%~nxA >> list.txt del list1.txt put your root directory in dir command. It will create a list1.txt with full path names and then a list.txt with only the file names.
create a batch-file with the following code:
dir %1 /b /a-d > list.txt Then drag & drop a directory on it and the files inside the directory will be listed in list.txt
In Powershell dir uses Get-ChildItem, which you can filter using Powershell commands:
dir | select { $_.Name } 
Windows 10:
open cmd
change directory where you want to create text file(movie_list.txt) for the folder (d:\videos\movies)
type following command
d:\videos\movies> dir /b /a-d > movie_list.txt
dir /s/d/a:-d "folderpath\*.*" > file.txt And, lose the /s if you do not need files from subfolders
For some reason Premkumar's answer did not work on windows 7. Here's a batch file variant that does (by combining ~nxi from Premkumar's answer and the command from npocmaka's answer):
@echo off for /r %%i in (.\*.mkv) do echo %%~nxi 