Occasionally I use Vim to search for filenames in a directory listing rather than relying on windows search or some other search tool that might not be available at the time. This has the advantage of allowing me to use Vim commands to filter and modify the results as needed. The main drawback with this approach is that dos directory listings don't list the filename and path on a single line thus requiring more advanced searches to be constructed to find anything. The following commands will take a dos directory listing created with dir /s and turn it into a line by line listing containing the full path to each file or directory.