How to fetch tree directory structure of a folder through Command Prompt

In Windows 10, For easy understanding, each drive is assigned with a letter. (Eg.-C:\ drive). Similarly, Folder is a directory structure where files are stored for organizational purpose. But for system and user to understand the hierarchical structure of a folder, we need to create tree directory structure in a file. By referring to this directory structure, you will get the understanding of files , setup files/other files and any sub-folders present inside the folder. It can be achieved in 2 ways. Lets see how to do it. This article will guide you in simple steps.

Method 1: How to get Tree directory structure through Command Prompt.

Step 1: Press Winkey  and Type cmd.

Click “Run as administrator“.

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After command prompt opens, Execute this command.

tree d:\thegeekpage /a /f > d:\directoryList.txt

 

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Here you have created a folder tree directory structure. you can see the text file directorylist.txt being created in the D:\ drive.

Open this file with notepad and you can see as shown below.

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Here , thegeekpage folder has subfolder ( harddriveoff ) which in turn has 4 png files.

So the tree structure helps to read easily.

Method 2: Using Powershell we can create Tree directory structure.

 

Step 1: In order to open Powershell, Press WinKey + X and select Windows Powershell as shown.

 

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Step 2: Run this following command.

Get-ChildItem -Recurse 'd:\thegeekpage' | Select-Object FullName, name | Export-Csv -path d:\thegeekpageList.csv -noTypeInfo

where you need to replace “d:\thegeekpage” with the path to your folder and also replace “d:\thegeekpageList.csv” with the output file path.

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Step 3: After executing the above step.

You can see thegeekpageList csv file get generated in the specified drive which shows like this.



 

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Here you will see all the folders that are present and also all the files inside those folders in a hierarchical structure.

Hope you got to learn how to get tree directory structure in simple way.

Thank you!