Extract a list of files names from a folder using CMD

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

I want to extract a list of filename with the path using the DIR function under CMD but I only want to return the records with a file, I don't want to include all the folders i.e

If I had

c:\Temp\1.txt
c:\Temp\2.txt
c:\temp\test\5.txt

I would only want

c:\temp\1.txt
c:\temp\2.txt
c:\temp\test\5.txt

Not to include

c:\Temp
c:\temp\test

Is this possible to exclude the folders and just return the files?

[cb31]

dir /A-D

that should do the trick. To see the options available use dir /?

[Xenoous]

Could also use PowerShell.

Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Path\Goes\Here -File | Select FullName

[PaulV]

DIR /S /B /A-D

Would give you the full pathname of files only within the current folder structure.

[TonyRPH]

I find the OPs request a bit confusing?

c:\temp\1.txt
c:\temp\2.txt
c:\temp\test\5.txt

The impression I get is that they only want to return:

1.txt
2.txt
5.txt

Without the directory / folder names?

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

<snip>

Is this possible to exclude the folders and just return the files?

If so then:

FOR /R %F IN (*) DO @IF NOT EXIST "%F\" ECHO %~nxF

** Or in a batch file:

FOR /R %%F IN (*) DO (
    IF NOT EXIST "%%F\" ECHO %%~nxF
)

Edited by TonyRPH on Thursday 3rd July 09:56

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