将文件夹结构和子目录/文件导出到文本

Question

I am trying to export the folder structure and it's files of my portable hard drive to a text file to have offsite access.

I want to be able to copy the folder structure of my Music folder (100 GB+) to a text file including the files within the nested folders.

Note: I only want to copy the structure and layout of the folder and it's subdirectories and files, not the actual file.

I did some searching and found the following command used in PowerShell to acheive an output like I desire but it doesn't give me the filelist inside subfolders.

The command was:

Get-ChildItem | tree > Music_Structure.txt

I would like something similar to the following output in the text file.

C:.
├───Music
│   ├───Eminem
│   │   └───The Eminem Show
│   │       └───01 Curtains Up (skit).flac
                02 White America.flac

and so on.

I have tried other options such as Command Prompt tree command and dir command but doesn't give me a clean output.

Looking for a certain command or method that I can do every other month to maintain that text file.

Operating System: Windows 10 x64 Version 1809

Answer 1

You just need to use tree /F and then it will include the files in the folders. You also don't need to use Get-ChildItem at all, you can just provide a path to tree:

tree /f c:\your\music\folder > Music_Structure.txt

Note also that tree is not a PowerShell command but rather a command line executable, so you can use it directly in a command prompt.

~> tree /? 

Graphically displays the folder structure of a drive or path.

TREE [drive:][path] [/F] [/A]

   /F   Display the names of the files in each folder.
   /A   Use ASCII instead of extended characters.