Maybe you have records already in the table?

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>I'm using
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>insert into tempdb.dbo.scan_file_list
>exec xp_cmdshell 'dir C:\test\ *.* /b'
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>to try and load a list of filenames into a tble.
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>But I get other for instance files from the windows system directory included .
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>What am I doing wrong.
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>Thanks