Question

I want to list the files in a folder but not sub-folders. DIR enables you to list specific types of files (hidden, archive ready etc) and also only folders but I cannot see how to list only files.

I need the following statement to return files for further processing, but folder names are messing things up!

for /f %%a in ('dir /b %csvPath%') do (
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Answer 1

dir /b /a-d will give you files without directories. Note there is no space between /a-d. The ‘-‘ says “NOT” directories.

From the dir /? help information:

  /A          Displays files with specified attributes.
  attributes   D  Directories                R  Read-only files
               H  Hidden files               A  Files ready for archiving
               S  System files               -  Prefix meaning not
  /B          Uses bare format (no heading information or summary).