Can ms dos list all files and directory (including hidden ones)

ms-dos

I think there used to be a command called

dir -a

or something like that.

Now it's no longer there isn't it?

To see hidden file we need

dir /a:h

which will show only hidden files, which is not what I want.

So how to display all files, whether hidden or not?

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Just list all attributes in /a. That'd be dir /a:drhsa on real DOS and a few more letters on Windows with NTFS, all listed under /a in help.

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You can use the for and if commands to accomplish this:

for %i in (*) do if not "%~i" == a.c del "%~i"

This goes through the current directory, and compares each file name to a.c. If it doesn't match, the file is deleted.

How to list all files on all hard drives with output in MS-DOS batch

There is a program that can detect CD drives (FINDCD.EXE) that comes on some boot disks (including the Windows 98 Emergency Boot Disk) which you can use in a batch file to skip them:

@echo off
findcd.exe
if (%1)==() goto start

:dirit
if not exist %1:\*.* goto done
if (%1)==(%CDROM%) goto done
dir /a/s/o %1:\*.* >> c:\Files.txt
goto done

:start
for %i in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do call %0 %i
goto done

:done

I just threw this together off the top of my head (with no testing since I am currently in Windows), but it should do the trick for the most part. Note that floppy drives are always assigned a drive letter starting with A while hard-drives always start at C, so this skips A and B.

There is also a program that can detect RAM drives (FINDRAMD.EXE) which you can use to detect and skip RAM drives if you have those, but that requires more work (and a separate batch file). Look at SETRAMD.BAT which is usually included for an example.

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