Community Nugget 6-Jul-2012

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Yesterday I was using the List Folder Function when I noticed some unexpected behaviour. It lists hidden files and folders!

For example (under windows), when I list the contents of my C: drive the first item to show up is the hidden folder "$Recycle.Bin". Not a good look...

This got me thinking about some alternatives and I came up with this very useful command line version:

For those who are interested, the "dir" command offers lots of useful modifiers. It is pretty trivial to order the results by name, or by date for example:

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Added bonus: The "include subfolders" option seems to offer much better performance than the Recursive File List function