In order for me to get the results of a file search in a readable format, I use the following command line in a command prompt:
dir *.* /s > myResultList.txt
I then open that list in Excel, use fixed width format to get rid of all the stuff I don't want and then I have my list.
Seems like a lot to do for something so simple.
Does anyone out there have any recommendations for something that would work better than this?
It's a little hard to understand what exactly you're aiming for, but you can get a plain list of files by including the /b switch to dir:
dir /s /b *>foo.txt
If you have requirements for the exact format of the output, then perhaps a for loop might be more appropriate:
(for /r %x in (*) do (@echo."%x";%~tx;%~zx))>foo.csv
This would output a CSV file with the file names, their modification date and time and the file size, which you can easily open in Excel.
If you want a fixed-width format of custom columns—that's ... a little much more complex and I won't provide that here.
Using 'Powershell' and the 'Powershell Community Extensions' you will get access to the get-clipboard and out-clipboard commands, which can be used as explained here.
Another candidate: 'nircmd.exe' with the clipboard subcommand. Finally, try 'clip.exe' to pipe output to the clipboard on the command line.
UPDATE:
Since Vista, there seems to be a clip.exe in C:\Windows\system32.
find allows you to specify various criteria for searching for files, and lets you generate output using various formatting options.
