Windows DIR listing switch to exclude files in hidden folders

Question

I'm trying to get a list of files from a directory excluding files in hidden folders. With the following command, hidden folders are traversed even though I've set /A:-H to exclude hidden directories. Is there a different switch to stop them from being traversed too?

dir "C:\SVN" /A:-H /w /b /s

Alternatively, for this use case I know the name of the hidden folders I want to exclude, so if there is a way to exclude the folders by name ("\.svn\") that might have to suffice.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The /a:-h switch only applies to specific items that are marked hidden, it doesn't check the attributes of any ancestors. That is, files within a hidden folder also have to be marked as hidden themselves, otherwise dir will list them. To make this work you'll need to mark all of the subitems in your .svn folder as hidden.

Answer 2

dir c:\svn /a:-h /w /b /s | findstr /i /v ".svn"