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   Kerr-Mudd, John to Accu Backup   
   Re: Problems Listing Certain Filetypes W   
   21 Mar 23 19:31:50   
   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:08:44 -0700 (PDT)   
   Accu Backup  wrote:   
      
   > I'm trying to output a list of all .txt and .csv files located within a   
   certain directory and all its subdirectories.  On Windows Server 2019, I'm   
   running...   
   >   
   > C:\>dir "e:\shareddata\folder1\folder2" \*.txt \*.csv \s \b >    
   c:\users\username\desktop\output.txt"   
   >   
   > or similar variants and getting mixed results.  When I have the \s included,   
   I am getting ALL files... not just the ones I want.  I also got only the   
   wanted files but on the entire drive... not just from the folder I need.  What   
   am I missing here?  My    
   goal is to review the list of files and then use a similar batch to delete   
   them if there is nothing I need to keep.  Thanks.   
      
   Your option slashes are the wrong way round! Untested:   
      
   dir "e:\shareddata\folder1\folder2" \*.txt \*.csv /s /b   
      
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