Home / server / Questions / 87375
Accepted
Mark
Asked: 2009-11-24 07:27:18 +0800 CST

Need relative paths from a batch script directory listing

  • 772

I have a simple batch script that recursively looks at all files and folders within the directory and writes out the file inventory to a text file. It currently looks like this:

dir /b/s > files.txt

The /b means don't give any extra info and /s makes it recursive within sub-folders. The sample output is:

C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web
C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web\Themes
C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web\Themes\Sitev2
C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web\Themes\Sitev2\images
C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web\Themes\Sitev2\style
C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web\Themes\Sitev2\images\site
C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web\Themes\Sitev2\images\site\beta.gif
C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web\Themes\Sitev2\style\site.css
C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\Web\Themes\Sitev2\style\ie7.css

I'd like two things:

  1. Only list out files in this listing rather than files and folders
  2. I'd like the paths to be relative from where the batch script was called

E.g. I have the script in the C:\Users\mark\Desktop\site\site\ folder so I don't want to see up to that point.

Is it possible to do those two things and if so, can anyone help with either?

shell

2 Answers

  1. You can grab the unxutils suite, drop find.exe in your starting directory then launch it with something like:

    ./find.exe . -type f > result.txt

    Just my 2cts.

    • 1
  2. Best Answer

    dir /b /s /a-d will get you files only. I think for relative paths you're going to need to do some more work than just a simple batch file, e.g. call some vbscript to (1) get the current directory, (2) open the text file, (3) do a search and replace on the text file, and (4) save the result back.

    • 0