Imagine a large number of files, organized in folders (thousands of folders)...there are multiple types of files in each folder (PDF, ZIP, DOCX, etc.). I'm looking for a tool that can show the current directory structure, but just the type(s) of files that I want to see (just the PDFs for instance). The ability to copy the displayed files to another location and just get the file type(s) I'm looking for would be nice also.
Any suggestions?
I can set a backup tool to create a new directory structure that mimics what I want, but that's both time and space intensive.
Win7 or Win8
dir
can be used to only show files with a certain extension. You can usefor
to execute commands on them. You can even very quickly and space-efficiently build a new directory structure with symbolic links. Simple file operations likerobocopy
can filter filetypes directly. What exactly do you want to do with these files?