Output of tree in command prompt

Question

I was hoping to be able to use the

tree /F /A > "desktop"\file.txt

command to output only text files. Currently as is, it outputs every file extension.

Does anyone know of an easy way to do this?

score 45 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 12 '12 at 20:58

Tree accepts only a few command line parameters:

c:\>Tree /?
Graphically displays the folder structure of a drive or path.

TREE [drive:][path] [/F] [/A]

   /F   Display the names of the files in each folder.
   /A   Use ASCII instead of extended characters.

None of the indicated parameters are a file mask or filter.

You can use dir with the proper switches, and redirect the output to a text file. You'll get the full path name to the files, but you can filter that out in later processing if need be with a for loop:

C:\>dir *.txt /s /b > filelist.txt

Note - the command prompt was locked down on the server I was trying the tree function on. It worked best to use the 'dir' command inside a .cmd file. — John M, Apr 06 '16 at 02:30

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 12 '12 at 22:57

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It's actually not that hard to get your desired TREE output using FINDSTR regular expressions. :-)

tree /f /a | findstr /ri /c:"^[^| ]" /c:"^[| ]*[+\\]" /c:"\.txt$"

answered Jun 12 '12 at 22:57

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Not that hard? This is some wizard level stuff +1 – Noah Cristino Jul 09 '17 at 21:05
I wish to understand how you get to this solution, also this should be the accepted one. – Jorge Diaz Aug 10 '20 at 17:08

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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Note: that tree command does not order the output by name!

Instead you can use this approach:

dir /b /s /ad /on c:\ > c:\file.txt

Result looks like less nice but

reference

this solution found on Superuser by pbies

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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answered Nov 28 '14 at 15:18

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 19 '18 at 22:10

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Another simple option: Go to the directory you want to list out, type in CMD so you are already in the right place, then:

tree /a /f>"output.doc"

That will put it into a word doc, easier to edit and format from there.

answered Jun 19 '18 at 22:10

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score -1 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 08 '17 at 13:58

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Simpler.

You just need to export your result like this: tree /a /f >"toto.rtf"

Then you open the file with Word and choose MS DOS convert.

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answered Sep 08 '17 at 11:38

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How does that suppress files that are not `.txt`? – Stephan Sep 08 '17 at 18:05

Output of tree in command prompt

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