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The Fastest Way of searching the directory in windows

This computer trick will save the all sub directory and file names in text file.  This may helpful to analyses the directory (you can know what are the contents inside the window without browsing by simple commands).

Step 1:
First of all open command Prompt.



Step 2:
Browse to folder which you want to analyze the sub directories and files by using cd commands. For Example if you want to visit d:/interview folder then try this command.
Type "d:"
then "cd interview".

Step 3:
After navigate to direcotry in command prompt,
Type this command :

dir *.* /s /b > dirlist.txt

and hit enter.
This will list all sub directories and files with their extension.

If you want to list only pdf files just use this command

dir *.pdf /s /b > dirlist.txt

Likewise, if you want to search only microsoft word files then use this command.

dir *.doc /s /b > dirlist.txt
If you want to search and list only files that has some certain name. For example, Resume.doc then try this command
dir Resume.* /s /b > dirlist.txt
(or)
dir Resume.doc /s /b > dirlist.txt

Step 4:
You can find the dirlist.txt file in that directory. i mean it will d:/interview directory.

This computer trick will save the all sub directory and file names in text file.  This may helpful to analyse the direcotry(you can know what are the contents inside the window without browsing by simple commands).

Step 5:
Open the text file in notepad or notepad++ ,then search your desired file name or folder(for example "resume"),you will get the full path to the file. This is fastest search than the usual windows search.
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