Batch files List all files in a directory with relative paths

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Concerning Windows batch files  Is there a way to list all the files  or all of a specific type  in a certain directory and its subdirectories  including the paths relative to the current  or the search  directory in the list   For example  if I want all the  txt files in the current directory and subdirectories with their full paths  I can do  for  r     g in    txt  do echo   g  gt  gt  C  temp test txt   or  dir   txt  b  s  gt  gt  C  temp test txt   and I will get something like  C  test Doc1 txt C  test subdir Doc2 txt C  test subdir Doc3 txt   If I do  for  r     g in    txt  do echo    nxg  gt  gt  C  temp test txt   I will get something like  Doc1 txt Doc2 txt Doc3 txt   But what I really want is   Doc1 txt subdir Doc2 txt subdir Doc3 txt   Is it possible   If my post is too confusing  I basically want List files recursively in Linux CLI with path relative to the current directory  but just for Windows

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The simplest  but not the fastest  way to iterate a directory tree and list relative file paths is to use FORFILES   forfiles  s  m   txt  c  cmd  c echo  relpath    The relative paths will be quoted with a leading    as in      Doc1 txt     subdir Doc2 txt     subdir Doc3 txt    To remove quotes   for  f   A in   forfiles  s  m   txt  c  cmd  c echo  relpath    do echo    A   To remove quotes and the leading      setlocal disableDelayedExpansion for  f  delims     A in   forfiles  s  m   txt  c  cmd  c echo  relpath    do     set  file    A    setlocal enableDelayedExpansion   echo  file  2    endlocal     or without using delayed expansion  for  f  tokens 1  delims      A in      forfiles  s  m   txt  c  cmd  c echo  relpath     do for   F in      B  do echo    F

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echo on gt out txt  echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set  parentfolder  CD   for  r     g in       do     set  var   g    set var  var  parentfolder      echo  var   gt  gt  out txt

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You could simply get the character length of the current directory  and remove them from your absolute list  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion for  L   n in  1 1 500  do if     cd      n 1   neq    set  a  len   n 1  setlocal DisableDelayedExpansion for  r     g in    log  do     set  absPath   g    setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion   set  relPath  absPath   len      echo  relPath    endlocal

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This answer will not work correctly with root paths containing equal signs       Thanks  dbenham for pointing that out      EDITED  Fixed the issue with paths containing    again spotted by  dbenham  thanks     Alternatively to calculating the length and extracting substrings you could use a different approach    store the root path  clear the root path from the file paths    Here s my attempt  which worked for me     ECHO OFF SETLOCAL DisableDelayedExpansion SET  r    CD     FOR  R     F IN     DO     SET  p   F    SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion   ECHO  p  r      ENDLOCAL     The r variable is assigned with the current directory  Unless the current directory is the root directory of a disk drive  it will not end with    which we amend by appending the character   No longer the case  as the script now reads the    CD   variable  whose value always ends with    thanks  jeb    instead of CD    In the loop  we store the current file path into a variable  Then we output the variable  stripping the root path along the way

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Of course  you may write a recursive algorithm in Batch that gives you exact control of what you do in every nested subdirectory    echo off set mypath  call  treeProcess goto  eof   treeProcess setlocal for   f in    txt  do echo  mypath   f for  D   d in     do       set mypath  mypath   d      cd   d     call  treeProcess     cd      endlocal exit  b

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