List all folders and subfolders in cmd, but not the files

Question

New to using cmd, just wanted to know is there a way to list all folders their subfolders, if any, but not the files.

e.g.D:\Movies\ dir /s /b gives me list of all files and folders located in Movies, and also its subfolders e.g. D:\Movies\Watched.

I would like to display only folders its subfolders, not their files. Is it possible?

Solution

Yes, this is possible as it can be read on running in a command prompt window dir /? which outputs the help for command DIR.

dir D:\Movies\* /AD /B /ON /S

This command outputs

• only directories because of /AD (attribute directory) including those with hidden attribute set,
• with only the names of the directories because of /B (bare format),
• with all subdirectories in a directory sorted by name because of /ON (order by name)
• of specified directory D:\Movies and all subdirectories because of /S and
• with full path of each directory also because of /S.

A small modification of the command line is needed to ignore directories with hidden attribute set:

dir D:\Movies\* /AD-H /B /ON /S

-H after /AD results in ignoring hidden directories.

See also:

• Microsoft's command-line reference
• SS64.com - A-Z index of the Windows CMD command line

Comments

[Eryk Sun]

I prefer to end with the variable-length sequence of directories to be listed, e.g. dir /ad-h-s /b /on /s d:\videos d:\pictures d:\music [...].