Jeff

Here's what I want to do...I want a text file of folder names at a given location. Is there a program that can do this for me?

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Hardknock

Try looking at download.com They have lots of out there programs available.

zero2

Go to command prompt and type in tree. My Dos is kind of rusty, but I'm pretty sure you can redirect the output into a text file.

In any event if no one knows how to do it. Just copy & paste the text into a wordprocessing document.

vinaur

to output the cmd tree command output into a text file put > [path to text file you are outputting to] after the tree command. Example: tree C:\Windows > C:\Temp\a.txt

The output is kind of messy though.

TheProf

Not sure what version of windows you're using, but this should work with all versions

1) go the the command prompt (command or CMD)
2) type dir /AD /ON > directories.txt

And there you go. It will create a file called directories.txt which will have all the directories listed, in alphabetical order.

vinaur

Here's what you really want. Open cmd, go to the folder you want the tree of and type in the following: dir /b /ad /on /s > dirs.txt


The output will be in that same folder.

Jeff

That does the trick well enough. THanks for your help, everyone.

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mikec

similar to vinaur's solution, nav to the top level folder in a cmd prompt, and typs:

dir /s > c:\files.txt

the output will be c:\files.txt

not sure what all the other switches V is listing.....dir /s will give you everything.

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vinaur

The /b switch is to get rid of all the unnecessary info, such as date it was created and how many files it contains. It's called bare format.

The /ad switch is used to display only directories. You can display only hidden files (/ah), system files (/as), read-only, and so forth. The /a stands for attribute. The d stands for directory.

The /on is to order the directories by name.

The /s is to display the sub directories.

By doing dir /s you are going to get a humangous list with a lot of info that you don't need.

BAMF

yes, but how do you do it in perl?

mikec

thanks for explaining the switches.

I don't agree about /s though....it lists only date, time, top folder, and files/folders within....all pertinent info IMO.

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vinaur

Jeff wanted to output only folders, so you would have to add more switches to filter the results.