Windows command line show files in folder

So here is a solution for both your requests in the manner you originally asked for. It will give human readability filesize without the filesize limits everyone is experiencing. Compatible with Win Vista or newer. XP only available if Robocopy is installed. Just drop a folder on this batch file or use the better method mentioned below. To be able to use this batch file conveniently put it in your SendTo folder.

This will allow you to right click a folder or selection of folders, click on the SendTo option, and then select this batch file. To find the SendTo folder on your computer simplest way is to open up cmd then copy in this line as is. I solved similar problem.

Some of methods in this page are slow and some are problematic in multilanguage environment all suppose english. I found simple workaround using vbscript in cmd. It is tested in WR2 and W7. You can, of course, change last line to directly display result to e.

You can use it as subroutine or as standlone cmd. Parameter is name of tested folder closed in quotes. Easiest method to get just the total size is powershell, but still is limited by fact that pathnames longer than characters are not included in the total. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 9 years, 3 months ago. Active 6 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Harriesh Gomahan 17 9 9 bronze badges. Eldad Assis Eldad Assis 9, 10 10 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 74 74 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Mark Amery k 67 67 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Nir Duan Nir Duan 5, 4 4 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. This is the most elegant solution if you don't require an integer return value. I guess it's not possible to print file sizes in some more useful units, like kB or MB, right? Double quotes instead of single quotes.

Joey Joey k 80 80 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Steve, in my eyes PowerShell is way more Unix-y than Unix in that most core commands are really orthogonal.

However, it sadly doesn't seem to work in PowerShell, which means I seem to be unable to use this command on a UNC path. Great answer. Check example output. Answering late.

Hope it help someone. Somnath Muluk Somnath Muluk Works fine inside of Windows 10 installing window! Voted up, cause planet earth is amazing — Anselm. How to print this to file? I know the OP asked for a command, but I'm wondering if you know of a GUI-style way of getting the same tree-like display of directories and files? Show 2 more comments. Laszlo Lugosi Laszlo Lugosi 3, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges.

This solution worked great with the added bonus of exporting the list to a. Wow, great solution. You literally saved me 25 minutes How to find the size of a file In Windows, we can use dir command to get the file size.

Get size for all the files in a directory. Reply Link. Dear Team, please suggest how to get size in GB. MB useing DOS. Back To Top. Table of Contents.

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