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

XP1's answer is great, but had a minor caveat: the output encoding is UCS2-LE, while I'd prefer UTF8 (smaller filesize, and more widespread).

After a lot of searching and head scratching, I can finally present you the following command, that produces an UTF8-BOM file:

PowerShell -Command "TREE /F | Out-File output.txt -Encoding utf8"

If the output filename has spaces:

PowerShell -Command "TREE /F | Out-File ""output file.txt"" -Encoding utf8"

Many thanks to this article: https://www.kongsli.net/2012/04/20/powershell-gotchas-redirect-to-file-encodes-in-unicode/

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Also, personally I have created the following files in my PATH:

xtree.cmd:

@IF [%1]==[] @(
    ECHO You have to specify an output file.
    GOTO :EOF
)

@PowerShell -Command "TREE | Out-File %1 -Encoding utf8"

xtreef.cmd:

@IF [%1]==[] @(
    ECHO You have to specify an output file.
    GOTO :EOF
)

@PowerShell -Command "TREE /F | Out-File %1 -Encoding utf8"

Finally, instead of tree > output.txt I just do xtree output.txt