This one is mainly a note to self, but maybe someone will find it helpful. no exposition here!

I needed to get a list of all folders in a directory into an excel spreadsheet. let’s say the location was D:\shared\filesharename

1. open command prompt
2. Enter D: to switch to the d drive
3. enter cd shared\filesharename to access the folder
4. enter dir /b /ad > c:\temp\filesharenames_subfolders.csv
   • /b uses bare format, no heading or summary
   • /ad filters for only directories, as i don’t want files included
   • > exports it to the file specified
   • C:\temp\filesharenames_subfolders.csv is the file it is outputting to

I end up with list of the folders in this directory that can be copy pasted into excel easily!