[Hidden-tech] Printing a folder directory

[Tom Murray]

The Unix command is ls.
You can copy and paste its output into a text file.   More details  
(in brief):

- Launch the Terminal Application
- use pwd to see what directory you are at at any point (probably  
starts with your home directory /Users/yourAccountName)
- use "cd" to change to the desired directory.  E.g. 'cd Documents/ 
CateringBusiness'  (you may be able to type 'cd ' and then drag and  
drop from a folder to get the directory path to insert automatically)  
(BTW: unix is case-sensitive)
- the 'ls' command has a number of options.  type 'man ls' to see  
documentation. (space bar to continue to scroll down the  
documentation, type control-z to exit documentation.

Examples:

'ls'
'ls -l'   -- long form of directory

ls > ~/Desktop/folderlisting.txt     -- will create a text file on  
your desktop containing the output.

--good luck!


On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Rich wrote:

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> This is one of those perpetual gaps that I continue to be amazed  
> the OS developers at MS and Apple continue to
> miss .  You can find a number of tools on Tucows.com for windows.
>
> Since the Mac (OS-X) is basically a unix system - you can always  
> drop to the shell level and use 'ls',
> my closest Mac system is on the road today so can't give exact  
> procedure until later - any Mac OS-X
> guru's care to do that now ?
>
> For PC, I do the same thing using Cygwin  (http://www.cygwin.com/)  
> -- if there is enough interest I
> will post how to create a right-click menu to list  any folder.
>
> Rich
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> Videatives at aol.com wrote:
>> Occasionally I need to print out on paper all the file names  
>> within a folder.   I would love to cut and paste the file names as  
>> a batch into a Word document or an Excel spread sheet, but I have  
>> not found a method to do so.   I end up cutting and pasting the  
>> file names one by one.   I use Mac OS 10.3.9.    Does anyone have  
>> a tip for this function?   I have done screen shots of the folder  
>> directory, but these are bitmaps and are not manipulatable.   I  
>> would be curious if batch-copying the list of files in a folder  
>> can be done on either a Mac or a PC.   Thanks
>>
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