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How to get last modification date timestamp in "DIR /S /B" result?
In the early days of Windows (3.1, Windows 95) there was a wonderful feature, called "Find", which could be used for finding files on your computer.
Some *** has decided to remove this ...
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Show only folder name with the link information via Windows DIR
How can I get only folder and its symbolic link information output via dir?
What I want is this, where CNET and projects are symbolic links:
CNET [\\192.168.1.10\CNET]
elements
localized
projects [\\...
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Powershell equivalent of "dir /a"?
Running dir /a on a given directory on one of our servers produces a list of unexpected files that look like malware:
C:\Users\<username>dir /a c:\Users\Public\Downloads\
Volume in drive C has ...
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What does [...] mean for Reparse Point Target when dir /al is executed
When I execute dir \al (Attribute: Reparse Points), I get a result that lists reparse points. The following output is easy enough to understand with columns being Date Modified, Time Modified, Dir ...
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What's the easiest way to map "ls" to the "dir" command in Windows? [duplicate]
I've found a few posts on command line aliases in Windows but most of them relate to aliasing long cd commands/paths that are frequently used and I can't make them work for my needs.
In my case, I ...
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How to get the only the total files size from folders in windows commandline
How to get the only the total files size from folders dir in windows commandline
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List each subdirectory and the number of files within it using cmd.exe
I have several subdirectories that contain files, and I want to list each subdirectory and beside it the number of files (*.html specifically) within that subdirectory. For example, I am in "C:\...
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Can I get a list of media files duration using something like DIR?
I'm at folder Music, all right? and let's say I want to know the name and other attributes of every song in that directory, then I'll just open a terminal and go
dir > musicFiles.txt
but that ...
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Windows cmd dir hogging CPU
I have a couple of these "Windows command Processor" (cmd) running a dir command and taking 10-15% CPU constantly, heating everything up and well hogging CPU.
I also see findstr running ...
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Windows command dir lists files with absolute path, relative path required
I would like to list all filesnames of all files with a specific extension in a directory structure and write this to a file. What I have reached:
dir /B /S *.ext > list.filenames
This gives me a ...
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How do I use the command line to search for multiple characters at the same time?
Write a DOS command to display all files on drive C: whose filenames are 7 characters long and begins with the letters CHAR.
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How can I output a list of filenames surrounded by quotation marks?
In Windows Command Prompt, I can use the dir command to output the names of all PNG files within a directory:
dir *.png /od /b > files.txt
file 1.png
file 2.png
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However, the image files I am ...
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Understanding why the DIR command behaves this way
Why does:
dir "test.txt "
dir test.txt.
dir "test.txt . . ."
all lists test.txt with no error on Windows prompt?
Are there any other suffix that are ignored by Windows?
(please note that I ...
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Why would the DIR command not be working for the documents folder in CMD?
Why would it be that I can't list the contents of the documents directory, but it works for every other folder. It is behaving like I accessed the special folder "My Documents", but I didn't.
The ...
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DIR command that ignores files with multiple extensions
I have a directory containing a single .exe that I need to find using DIR. However, I also have files in the same directory that end in .vshost.exe.
I always end up with both files matched to my *.exe ...
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