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

The short answer is you cannot and this is because tree.com is an ANSI application, even on Windows 7.

The only solution is to write your own tree implementation. Also you could file a bug to Microsoft, but I doubt they are not already aware about it.