List only files of a particular extension with the DIR command

Question

On Windows, we can see directory content using the DIR command.

I want to know, how can one see the list of only those files which have particular extension, e.g I want to see list of all .txt files, what command I should run?

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 26 '12 at 15:13

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Dir supports wildcards, so:

dir *.txt

answered Jan 26 '12 at 15:13

EBGreen

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score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '18 at 08:05

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You can list only the filenames without the extra information added with the command
dir /b *.[extension].

A more comprehensive list can be found here .

answered Jun 29 '18 at 08:05

srdg

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score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 07 '17 at 06:31

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dir /S *.txt

will show files with ".txt" suffix in specified directory and all sub-directories.

answered Nov 07 '17 at 06:31

Haifeng Li

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List only files of a particular extension with the DIR command

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