Suppress directory names being listed with DIR

Question

I want to list the files in a folder but not sub-folders. DIR enables you to list specific types of files (hidden, archive ready etc) and also only folders but I cannot see how to list only files.

I need the following statement to return files for further processing, but folder names are messing things up!

for /f %%a in ('dir /b %csvPath%') do (
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JJ. · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-23T16:27:26.867

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dir /b /a-d will give you files without directories. Note there is no space between /a-d. The '-' says "NOT" directories.

From the dir /? help information:

  /A          Displays files with specified attributes.
  attributes   D  Directories                R  Read-only files
               H  Hidden files               A  Files ready for archiving
               S  System files               -  Prefix meaning not
  /B          Uses bare format (no heading information or summary).

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answered Aug 23 '11 at 16:20

JJ.

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Fantastic. I did actually read the help files but it was at the end of a long day! Thanks for pointing that out. – RichGK Aug 24 '11 at 07:09
can we ignore the file extension from result too? – Luke May 15 '18 at 08:46
Does not work on my Windows 10 Enterprise against a mapped drive. Does work on a local drive – Jay Mar 27 '23 at 18:46

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 31 '15 at 11:46

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dir /b /s /a-d

/s lists every directory and all subdirectories containing files, and (a-d) without empty directories.

dir /b /s /a-d /p

/p pause

dir /b /s /a-d > list.txt

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answered Aug 31 '15 at 10:30

Leonardo Lopez

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 23 '11 at 16:20

You could use:

dir /b /a-d

Which will suppress directories being listed.

The /A switch has a few other options to assist with filtering:

/A          Displays files with specified attributes.
attributes   D  Directories                R  Read-only files
             H  Hidden files               A  Files ready for archiving
             S  System files               I  Not content indexed files
             L  Reparse Points             -  Prefix meaning not

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 23 '11 at 16:21

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Use dir /B /A-D to get files only.

answered Aug 23 '11 at 16:21

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 23 '11 at 16:21

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You want the /A-D option:

for /f %%a in ('dir /A-D /b %csvPath%') do ( )

answered Aug 23 '11 at 16:21

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Suppress directory names being listed with DIR

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