This is a little software I made a long time ago because I needed an easy way on Windows to scan for files in a directory and to output their names in a plain text file.
This is basically what it does, more features were added later on though:
- Filtering by file extension
- HTML output
- Excel output
This software is far from perfect (nor bug free) but I’m keeping it here because it may still be useful to someone.
Download:
DirLister (1722)
- DirLister main window
- An example of the DirLister output


Believe me, I have looked at and loaded dozens of pieces of software to find just what you made. You can save it anywhere, output it in multiple formats at your selection and query any directory and subdirectories. I love this program.
thank you.
You are welcome!
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I will never be able to understand why there is no easy way of doing this in windows without resorting to esoteric methods or external software. On Unix-based systems it has always been a trivial task to do.
Anyway I’m glad to know that my software still gets the job done despite its age (and ugliness