How can one extract the names of files in a folder as text? [closed]

Question

For example in windows explorer?

Answer 1

In the absence of any further information,

c:> cd directory
c:> dir > files.txt

to write a list of files to a text file (files.txt)

EDIT: dir /b to simply generate the bare file names

Answer 2

For just the file names:

c:\dir /b > files.txt