DOS: Directory listing that excludes a file type

dos

In MS-DOS, if I enter dir *.pdf, I'll get all the PDF files in a directory. Is there a way to get everything but PDF files? Something like dir !*.pdf?

Thanks!

Best Answer

I think there's a /v option for findstr which is equivalent to grep -v (include all lines that don't contain the text. So I'd be looking at:

dir | findstr /vi ".pdf"

The syntax may be slightly different, I haven't had much need to use it and I don'r run Windows at my current location.

Use findstr /? from a command prompt for details.

Or, if you install CygWin (my tool of choice for this sort of stuff), you can just use grep itself:

ls -al | grep -vi '\.pdf$'

Addendum:

I actually didn't realize this but apparently findstr also support regexes so you can use:

dir | findstr /vi "\.pdf$"

just the same as grep (I haven't tested this, I only just found it on TechNet, so you'll need to test it yourself).

Related Solutions

Recursive directory listing in DOS

You can use:

dir /s

If you need the list without all the header/footer information try this:

dir /s /b

(For sure this will work for DOS 6 and later; might have worked prior to that, but I can't recall.)

DOS BAT file equivalent to Unix basename command

For command-line

for /F %i in ("c:\foo\bar.txt") do @echo %~ni

For .bat Files

for /F %%i in ("c:\foo\bar.txt") do @echo %%~ni

output: bar

If the path contains a space, add in "delims=" like so:

for /F "delims=" %i in ("c:\foo\bar baz.txt") do @echo %~ni

output: bar baz

(Further Reading: http://www.computerhope.com/forhlp.htm )

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Recursive directory listing in DOS

DOS BAT file equivalent to Unix basename command

Related Topic