{"id":15794,"date":"2020-05-11T08:50:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=15794"},"modified":"2020-05-11T08:50:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T08:50:58","slug":"export-directory-structure-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/export-directory-structure-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Export a Directory Structure in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can I print the hierarchical structure of a particular directory so I can share it to other people? Printing a directory listing sounds so easy, but Windows doesn’t provide a straightforward way to do this. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use Command Prompt or PowerShell to export a directory structure in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Export Directory Structure Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + R to launch the Run box. Type cmd<\/strong> and hit Enter to open Command Prompt<\/a>.\n

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  2. You can run the “tree<\/strong>” command to export the directory tree of any folder to a text file. In our case, the “d:\\demo<\/em>” is the folder we want to export the directory tree, and the result is saved in a plain text file (*.txt).\n

    tree d:\\demo \/a \/f > d:\\list.txt<\/code><\/p>\n

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  3. Open the text file using Notepad and the entire directory tree is listed inside, and you can print them out.\n

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    If you look for a way to export the directory structure in .csv format so you can open it with Microsoft Excel, proceed to the next method.<\/p>\n

    Method 2: Export Directory Structure Using PowerShell<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. To get started, you need to open the Windows PowerShell window<\/a>. If you’re running Windows 10, press the Windows key + X together and select “Windows PowerShell<\/strong>“.\n

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    2. Enter the following command and press Enter. Make sure you replace “d:\\demo<\/em>” with the folder which you want to export the directory structure.\n

      Get-ChildItem -Recurse 'd:\\demo' | Select-Object FullName, name | Export-Csv -path d:\\list.csv -noTypeInfo<\/code><\/p>\n

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    3. It will generate a .csv file which lists all files and sub-folders in your target directory. But it doesn’t show you the hierarchical levels like the Method 1 will.\n

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      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How can I print the hierarchical structure of a particular directory so I can share it to other people? Printing a directory listing sounds so easy, but Windows doesn’t provide a straightforward way to do this. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use Command Prompt or PowerShell to export a directory structure in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39],"tags":[4456,4457],"class_list":["post-15794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-export-directory-structure-windows","tag-export-folder-structure-to-excel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15794"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15804,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794\/revisions\/15804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}