Recursive directory listing in DOS

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How do we achieve a recursive directory listing in DOS?

I'm looking for a command or a script in DOS which can give me the recursive directory listing similar to ls -R command in Unix.

Best Answer

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.)

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for entry in "$search_dir"/*
do
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Javascript – How to get a list of the names of all files present in a directory in Node.js

You can use the fs.readdir or fs.readdirSync methods. fs is included in Node.js core, so there's no need to install anything.

fs.readdir

const testFolder = './tests/';
const fs = require('fs');

fs.readdir(testFolder, (err, files) => {
  files.forEach(file => {
    console.log(file);
  });
});

fs.readdirSync

const testFolder = './tests/';
const fs = require('fs');

fs.readdirSync(testFolder).forEach(file => {
  console.log(file);
});

The difference between the two methods, is that the first one is asynchronous, so you have to provide a callback function that will be executed when the read process ends.

The second is synchronous, it will return the file name array, but it will stop any further execution of your code until the read process ends.

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