[Hidden-tech] Printing a folder directory

[Victor Danilchenko]

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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. 
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> 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 ?

	You fire up Terminal.app, and then do 'ls -1 <directory name>' (that's 
the number '1', not lowercase L) in order to get a nice one-per-line 
list of filenames. If the list is too long to fit on a terminal, do this:

ls -1 ~/"somedirectory" > ~/Desktop/files.txt

	This will put the file list into a file on your desktop named 
'files.txt'. '~' means your home directory; so, for example, you to get 
a listing of the directory 'Customers List' in your Documents folder, 
you would  do:

ls -1 ~/"Documents/Customers List" > ~/Desktop/files.txt

	The quotes are only needed if your directory name contains certain 
characters, like a blank space. Otherwise, you don't have to use them.

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|  Victor  Danilchenko  | Students nowadays, complaining they only get |
| danilche at cs.umass.edu | 10MBs of disk space! In my day we were lucky |
|   CSCF   |   5-4231   | if we had one file, and that was /dev/null.  |