Saving 'tree /f /a" results to a textfile with unicode support

Question

I\'m trying to use the tree command in a windows commandline to generate a text file listing the contents of a directory but when I pipe the output the unicode characters get st

Answer 1

This will save the results as ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) on your desktop, ASCII\ANSI doesn't recognize every international or extended character:

tree /f > ascii.txt

This will convert your ASCII text to Unicode (/c must precede actual command):

cmd /u /c type ascii.txt > unicode.txt

So why not just think of the ascii file as a temporary file and delete it?

del ascii.txt

If you must put all in one line you could use:

tree /f > ascii.txt & cmd.exe /u /c type ascii.txt > unicode.txt & del ascii.txt