How to list files using dos commands

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I need to list the names of the files and store it in as text file!

What I did is, I used the following dos command

 x:\xyz> dir *.* > files.txt

what this does is that, it stores the names of the files present in directory xyz as well as size, time and date of the files!

How to get only the names of files?

User · Answer

If you just want to get the file names and not directory names then use    dir  b  a-d  gt  file txt

User · Answer

Try dir  b  for bare format   dir    will show you documentation of what you can do with the dir command  Here is the output from my Windows 7 machine   C   gt dir    Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory   DIR  drive   path  filename    A    attributes     B    C    D    L    N      O    sortorder     P    Q    R    S    T    timefield     W    X    4      drive   path  filename                Specifies drive  directory  and or files to list      A          Displays files with specified attributes    attributes   D  Directories                R  Read-only files                H  Hidden files               A  Files ready for archiving                S  System files               I  Not content indexed files                L  Reparse Points             -  Prefix meaning not    B          Uses bare format  no heading information or summary      C          Display the thousand separator in file sizes   This is the               default   Use  -C to disable display of separator     D          Same as wide but files are list sorted by column     L          Uses lowercase     N          New long list format where filenames are on the far right     O          List by files in sorted order    sortorder    N  By name  alphabetic        S  By size  smallest first                 E  By extension  alphabetic   D  By date time  oldest first                 G  Group directories first    -  Prefix to reverse order    P          Pauses after each screenful of information     Q          Display the owner of the file     R          Display alternate data streams of the file     S          Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories     T          Controls which time field displayed or used for sorting   timefield   C  Creation               A  Last Access               W  Last Written    W          Uses wide list format     X          This displays the short names generated for non-8dot3 file               names   The format is that of  N with the short name inserted               before the long name  If no short name is present  blanks are               displayed in its place     4          Displays four-digit years  Switches may be preset in the DIRCMD environment variable   Override preset switches by prefixing any switch with -  hyphen --for example   -W

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