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How to get files ordered by name with `dir`?
This used to be really easy in the old OS's.
dir /o:n >> list.txt
for %a in (`list.txt`) do copy %a ..\ordered
And voila, there was the list of files in the other folder, created in the sorted ...
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Different date stamps Explorer vs. from command line - Win7
I'm trying to create a simple batch file to match up 2 directories of files to resolve some issues between the 2 sets. This would be very easy to do if I could match them between directories based ...
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How can I list all files recursively that have the compressed attribute set?
I started a decompress operation using compact /U /S /I /Q > compact-report.txt on a large dir (120GB+, ~950M+ files) and it has been going on for about 24 hours now. Most files seem decompressed, ...
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CMD Using DIR to order directories by name
I'm using the following command to list files including those in sub-directories ordered by name.
dir /b/s/on
The files are correctly ordered within their given directories but the directories are ...
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List files in CMD with DIR
I'm trying to use DIR to list all files in the current directory and sub directories ordered alphabetically. I only care about the filepath and name. I don't want the size, counts, etc. Here's what I ...
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Why does "dir *.*~" list files in a way different to what is expected?
In my directory I have the files files
x.dll
x.lib
x.pdb
x.exp
x.plugin
When I issue the command dir \*.*~ it should say 'File not found' as it does at my friend's laptop. But on my machine it ...
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Excluding files of particular extension using DIR command on windows command line
if i want to see e.g. files of a particular extension only using dir listing, i can do that using the command:
DIR *.txt
And it shows all files with .txt extension.
Now i want to know is there any ...
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List only files of a particular extension with the DIR command
On Windows, we can see directory content using the DIR command.
I want to know, how can one see the list of only those files which have particular extension, e.g I want to see list of all .txt ...
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Where are the standard Windows prompt commands files?
If I type dir in the command line, I guess it executes a dir.exe hidden somewhere in the system. Is there such a file? Where is it?
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