Re: Need advanced DIR list

[Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Yes, I am long-term friends with Jason Helmick, who has a number of
PowerShell videos up on Microsoft's site in which he probes the tool along
with its creator, Jeffrey _________.

I fully agree that I could likely cobble something together in PowerShell,
but was looking for a quick and dirty CMD method. I know one exists from
having been a DOS maven back in the day, but those skills have.become.very.
*rusty*.

I could also knock something together using Winbatch, but those skills
have.become.very.*rusty*.

Will try the FOR IN DO loop suggested.

Thx

> Chris

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>
wrote:

> PowerShell is the  .NET-based command shell and scripting language
> included in Windows versions since XP SP2. To my ageing eyes it looks
> like a sincere 21st Century attempt by Microsoft to emulate the
> richness, power and flexibility of the UNIX shell environment and
> utilities and the Software Tools philosophy.
>
> It's probably vast overkill for Chris to learn this just to solve his
> immediate DIR filtering need. But longer term, PowerShell looks like
> an excellent tool for creative TWs who want to do more than what
> Windows gives them out of the box. It does what Cygwin does but you
> shouldn't need anyone's approval to install it.
>
> Download the Quick Reference card:
> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=7097
>
> --- Stuart, who thinks that Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian
> Kernighan should get the Nobel Prize for Practical Awesomeness
>
> Chris Morton wrote:
>
>     On aWin7 box, I need to create a list of docs within a very
> extensive
>     foldersubfolder hierarchy.
>
>     I need the subfolder location, filename and timestamp, but
> nothing else.
>
>     At a CMD prompt, I know how to redirect a DIR /S to a TXT file.
>
>     Can I maybe pipe the command through a FILTER on its way to the
> TXT file?
>
> Peter Neilson replied:
>
>     Being a Unix person since too many years ago, I make sure that
> any
>     Windows box I use has Cygwin installed if at all possible.
> Cygwin gives
>     one the feeling of a Unix shell, so I can simply use the ls
> command
>     and (if necessary) pipe the result through sed, awk, grep, or
> whatever.
>
>     This method fails if (1) you don't know anything about Unix or
> Linux, or
>     (2) you are not allowed to install Cygwin.
>
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