Windows CMD Line - Directory listing and opening in notepad in one line working commands

DOS Command Line - Directory Listing and open in notepad in one line

Here are common examples on Stack OverFlow to opening a directory listing into notepad, but they don't work. 

dir > notepad 
dir | notepad 

Here's a fully working way to open directory listing into Notepad. You have to create a file. 

dir > dir.txt && notepad dir.txt

Or create file in temp directory (C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Local\Temp)

dir > %temp%\dir.txt && notepad %temp%\dir.txt

Using my free utility uniclip. Uniclip is a Unicode improvement to clip command.  

 

dir | uniclip && uniclip /notepad

Hacking

Here's a way to create a file and delete it, but it locks the cmd shell, until notepad executable is closed. In other words, you cannot issue command in the cmd shell, because handle is being used by Notepad. Once closed the > (command prompt) will return. Then deletes file %1. Does not appear in Recycle bin, but can be recovered by unerase programs.

dir > %1 | notepad %1 && del %1

You automatically close the calling cmd shell using the exit command. 

 

dir > %1 | notepad %1 && del %1 && exit

BTW Microsoft, in partnership with IBM and in the spirit of open innovation, released the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license.