Dir for loop get path details.

You can access the path of a "for" variable X using "%~dpX" (see "help call" for details), the name and extension with %~nxX; and if you want to set and expand variables inside a "for" loop, you need delayed variable expansion (see "help set" for details):

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set OutputFile=Output.txt
if exist "%OutputFile%" del "%OutputFile%"
FOR /f "delims=" %%f in ('dir /b /a-d-h c:\source\*.*') DO (
  set FilePath=%~dpf
  set FileName=%~nxf
  echo File path: !FilePath!
  echo File name: !FileName!
  echo %%f >>"%OutputFile%"
)

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If you just want the overview, you can use this:

tree /f

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Ok, try this.  Putting ( ) around commands will do it all in one go so one file operation creating file.  You can get different bits of file name and size etc. using operators on %%f, have shown some here to get path, name, size but see for /? for more.  I have changed %%f to %%F just to make it clearer in the other bits.  The ~ removes the "" characters around any files with spaces in so can re-add them to all for CSV type output.


@echo off
(FOR /f "delims=" %%F in ('dir /b /a-d-h c:\source\*.*') DO (
 Echo "%%~dpF","%%~nxF","%%~zF","%%~tF"
))> Output.csv

11 seconds slow there in posting :-)

Thanks for the posts so far, DragonIT your solution looks good but when I run it the %%~dpF command returns the path of the executing batch file and not of the file. This is I think an issue with my original DIR command which looking at it more closely does not include the path of the file in the output?

Perfect! Thanks for the help!

No problem, don't forget to "accept" the answer(s)

Sorry for the late 'Accept'!