How to list only .doc or .xls files with the Windows dir command in the cmd window?

Question

When using:

dir *.doc

all files that have suffixes .docx, .docm, .doct, and .doc files are listed.

When using:

dir *.xls

all files that have suffixes .xlsx, .xlsm, and .xls files are listed.

Is there a way to use the dir command in the command prompt to only list files with the .doc extension? Or only those with the .xls extension? In other words prevent the results from including .docx, .docm, .xlsx, .xlsm, etc...

Answer 1

You could use findstr to identify filenames ending with ".doc" an no other letters.

dir /s /b *.doc | findstr /I /E "\.doc"