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If you want to use powershell the code is very simple and the output is nice.

Code:

Get-ChildItem | tree

With

Get-ChildItem | tree > foo.txt

you can pipe the output to a Textfile.

Example Output:

Auflistung der Ordnerpfade für Volume System

Volumeseriennummer : 48E9-F43B

C:.

├───Contacts

├───Desktop

├───Downloads

│   └───Evernote Import

├───Dropbox

│   ├───Apps

│   │   └───iftttcom

│   │       └───getpocketpdf

│   ├───Backup

│   ├───Camera Uploads

│   ├───Development

You can also put the results directly into the clipboard (in Vista+):

tree | clip

While you most likely want the output of the TREE command (e.g. TREE /F > output.txt) in this case, if raw text as the output is fine, then you can run the following from a command prompt:

DIR C: /S > output.txt

Where output.txt will be generated in the current working directory, and contain a listing of all files and directories on the C: drive. If you want just an output of files with their full paths, run the following:

DIR C: /B /S > output.txt

_{It would also be a trivial task to write a program to parse the output back into a directory view style program for you to view.}

Open command prompt window --> Go to your directory path

Then run the following command to generate

tree /f /a > tree.doc

Above command will make the folder and files structure recursively and export to word document file.
You can find "tree.doc" created in the same folder

Use the following powershell command, also remember that you can export it to Xml, csv or to database. Also I have restricted properties to full name and name, you can use other properties like modified timestamp etc.

Get-ChildItem -Recurse 'Z:temp' *.xml | Select-Object -Property FullName,name | Export-Csv directory_structure.csv

I have created a program specifically for this - Directory Snapshot.

It recursively iterates through a directory and stores the names and sizes of all the files and folders it encounters in neatly-structured HTML files, which have an organization similar to that of the input directory.

In other words, this can be thought of as a hyperlinked version of the dir /s or tree /f commands.

Although this has already been answered, I came looking here for the solution, but didn't find it.

Looking further, I found this : http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tree.htm

With that I can follow the instructions of http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/dropbox-tip-continued-convert-a-file-tree-to-html/ , and create a HTML tree of my Dropbox public folder, and in that way share a directory tree very easy.

Try this powershell script if you want to list the number of files in each directory from your current location...

$dirs = Get-ChildItem -recurse | Where{$_.psIsContainer -eq $true} ; ForEach($d in $dirs){ "{0,6} | {1,-1}" -f (Get-ChildItem -path $d.fullname -recurse | where {$_.psIsContainer -ne $true}).count,$d.fullname >> file_counts.txt }

You could just use xcopy with the /T and /E option to copy only directories. That would get you a complete and browsable copy of the structure, and answers the first part of your question. Does not let you view files though...

You could use an archiving tool, such as WinZIP that can zip an entire directory structure into a single file, that you can, for example, transfer on a network, or put on a USB disk. Some tools will also keep flags such as read-only, archive, etc.

Under Linux, my favorite tool for such action is tar, that will take an entire directory structure into a single file, which I can couple with gzip to actually compress the whole thing.

I found the easiest way going to command prompt and entering (in my case I needed the K: directory)

tree K: > tree.doc

I chose a Word document since I needed something user friendly. Just select MS-Dos when opening it in Word and it'll look great.