Recursively List all directories and files

Question

I would like to receive the following output.

Suppose the directory structure on the file system is like this:

  -dir1
      -dir2
        -file1
        -file2
             -dir3
                -file3
                -file4
            -dir4
                -file5
       -dir5
             -dir6
             -dir7

The output from the script must be like:

Directories:

/dir1
/dir1/dir2
/dir1/dir2/dir3
/dir1/dir2/dir4
/dir1/dir5
/dir1/dir5/dir6
/dir1/dir5/dir7

Files:

/dir1
/dir1/dir2/file1
/dir1/dir2/file2
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file3
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file4
/dir1/dir2/dir4/file5
/dir1/dir5/dir6
/dir1/dir5/dir7

Could you tell me how to keep the output of find . -type d and find . -type f into another file?

Solution 1

In windows, to list only directories:

dir /ad /b /s

to list all files (and no directories):

dir /a-d /b /s

redirect the output to a file:

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

dir command parameters explained on wikipedia

Solution 2

in shell:

find . -type d

gives directories from current working directory, and:

find . -type f

gives files from current working directory.

Replace . by your directory of interest.

Solution 3

Bash/Linux Shell

Directories:

find ./ -type d 

Files:

find ./ -type f 

Bash/Shell Into a file

Directories:

find ./ -type d  > somefile.txt

Files:

find ./ -type f  > somefile.txt

Solution 4

On Windows, you can do it like this as most flexibile solution that allows you to additionally process dir names.

You use FOR /R to recursively execute batch commands.

Check out this batch file.

@echo off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion

SET N=0
for /R %%i in (.) do (
     SET DIR=%%i

     ::put anything here, for instance the following code add dir numbers.
     SET /A N=!N!+1
     echo !N! !DIR!
)

Similary for files you can add pattern as a set instead of dot, in your case

 (*.*)

Solution 5

This is an old question, but I thought I'd add something anyhow.

DIR doesn't traverse correctly all the directory trees you want, in particular not the ones on C:. It simply gives up in places because of different protections.

ATTRIB works much better, because it finds more. (Why this difference? Why would MS make one utility work one way and another work different in this respect? Damned if I know.) In my experience the most effective way to handle this, although it's a kludge, is to get two listings:

attrib /s /d C:\ >%TEMP%\C-with-directories.txt

attrib /s C:\ >%TEMP%\C-without-directories.txt

and get the difference between them. That difference is the directories on C: (except the ones that are too well hidden). For C:, I'd usually do this running as administrator.

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