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How save a list of all files in folder + subfolders

(in Windows via command line)

Go to Start Menu → Run (keyboard shortcut: [windows key]+R) and run “cmd”
Browse to the folder you want to list
Then type: dir /s > listing.txt

This is assuming you want to create a file named listing.txt and put the list in it.

If you want to append the listing to an existing file, use a double > :
dir /s >> listing.txt.

If you want to output the result to the console and not to a file, just skip the > listing.txt part.

If you don’t want to browse to the folder, you can specify it as an argument to dir:
dir c:\somefolder /s > c:\listing.txt.

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