Cmd tree to txt file

Thank you! Add a comment. The workaround, or hack, is to write the tree to the console and then dump the buffer to a file.

Install list menu. XP1 XP1 6, 7 7 gold badges 49 49 silver badges 60 60 bronze badges. How do I determine the encoding the console windows uses? I tried opening in word and it gave me the choice of encodings, I checked some of the more obvious ones and none of them looked right. I answered this within the answer above. Thanks bzim, you were right, opening in msword with "ms-dos" encoding works fine. Next step is for my program to parse the file, should be just a simple matter of selecting the equivalent encoding.

I've only looked at this briefly, so perhaps more adventurous souls can speak more about it! Chris Jester-Young Chris Jester-Young k 44 44 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Actually, "tree. In the documentation for cmd. However, when I tried this with "dir", I got the same results. And "dir" is an internal command. Well, just saying the docs were right on this particular point. But ouch, with the UTF representation of console codes, as opposed to Unicode code points!

That's seriously wrong Jamel Toms 4, 2 2 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Ricardo Bohner Ricardo Bohner 2 2 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Kenn Kenn 49 2 2 bronze badges. Chris Chris 21 1 1 bronze badge. Tree Command Options. TREE Command. Redirect Tree Command to New folder. Redirected Output of the file in Notepad. This command helps you to set properties and rename them. Command aids you to display configuration information about a printer.

With the help of the TREE command, you can get a list of files and folders in a graphical tree. PktMon stands for Packet Monitor. The PktMON windows command-line tool is to monitor internal packet propagation and packet drop reports. What is the use of this command? Can I get the output copied to a file? Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. The standard error output still displays as it normally does.

Note : Be careful to change the active directory for the command prompt before running the command. This will open the text file in your default text file viewer. For most people, this is usually Notepad. The next time you run the same command, the previous output file will be deleted. In the case of this example, you would type:. But in this case, instead of overwriting the output file, this command appends the new output to the existing output file. The same way you can redirect standard output writes to a file, you can also output the standard error stream to a file.

This sends the standard output stream to myoutput.