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How to list of all files within a folder | Quickly produce a file list


Here's a little something to keep up your sleeve, in case you need to create a list of all the files in a folder.

1. Navigate to the folder that you want to list.

2. Hold shift and right click.

3. Select "Open Powershell window here"

4. To list all the files in that folder, type:

ls | % Name > filelist.txt

and hit enter.

5. Go back to the folder, and look for the new text document called filelist.txt.

6. Voila!

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