Batch files: List all files in a directory with relative paths

Question

Concerning Windows batch files: Is there a way to list all the files (or all of a specific type) in a certain directory and its subdirectories, including the paths relative to the current (or the search) directory in the list?

For example, if I want all the .txt files in the current directory and subdirectories with their full paths, I can do

for /r . %%g in (*.txt) do echo %%g >> C:\temp\test.txt 

or

dir *.txt /b /s >> C:\temp\test.txt 

and I will get something like

C:\test\Doc1.txt C:\test\subdir\Doc2.txt C:\test\subdir\Doc3.txt 

If I do

for /r . %%g in (*.txt) do echo %%~nxg >> C:\temp\test.txt 

I will get something like

Doc1.txt Doc2.txt Doc3.txt 

But what I really want is:

Doc1.txt subdir\Doc2.txt subdir\Doc3.txt 

Is it possible?

If my post is too confusing: I basically want List files recursively in Linux CLI with path relative to the current directory, but just for Windows.

Answer 1

The simplest (but not the fastest) way to iterate a directory tree and list relative file paths is to use FORFILES.

forfiles /s /m *.txt /c "cmd /c echo @relpath" 

The relative paths will be quoted with a leading .\ as in

".\Doc1.txt" ".\subdir\Doc2.txt" ".\subdir\Doc3.txt" 

To remove quotes:

for /f %%A in ('forfiles /s /m *.txt /c "cmd /c echo @relpath"') do echo %%~A 

To remove quotes and the leading .\:

setlocal disableDelayedExpansion for /f "delims=" %%A in ('forfiles /s /m *.txt /c "cmd /c echo @relpath"') do (   set "file=%%~A"   setlocal enableDelayedExpansion   echo !file:~2!   endlocal ) 

or without using delayed expansion

for /f "tokens=1* delims=\" %%A in (   'forfiles /s /m *.txt /c "cmd /c echo @relpath"' ) do for %%F in (^"%%B) do echo %%~F