Recursive directory listing in DOS

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How do we achieve a recursive directory listing in DOS   I m looking for a command or a script in DOS which can give me the recursive directory listing similar to ls -R command in Unix

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You can use   dir  s   If you need the list without all the header footer information try this   dir  s  b    For sure this will work for DOS 6 and later  might have worked prior to that  but I can t recall

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dir  s  b  a d gt output txt will port it to a text file

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You can use various options with FINDSTR to remove the lines do not want  like so   DIR  S   FINDSTR   -    FINDSTR  VI DIR   Normal output contains entries like these   28-Aug-14  05 14 PM     lt DIR gt             28-Aug-14  05 14 PM     lt DIR gt                You could remove these using the various filtering options offered by FINDSTR  You can also use the excellent unxutils  but it converts the output to UNIX by default  so you no longer get CR LF  FINDSTR offers the best Windows option

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You can get the parameters you are asking for by typing   dir      For the full list  try   dir  s  b  a d

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I like to use the following to get a nicely sorted listing of the current dir    gt  dir    s  b sortorder N

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