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Old 02-05-2007
creating a file with a list
I would like to create a text file that contains the list (names of files and dirs) of a particular directory...

any ideas ?
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Old 02-05-2007
Use find command
find ./ *.* > alldirnfiles.txt
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Old 02-05-2007
ls -ltrR > filename.txt # Just sorted on date.
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Old 02-06-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by crabbie_upk
find ./ *.* > alldirnfiles.txt
A perfect example of how not to use the find command, this could be a CPU killer.

In case there are several 1000s of files and subdirectories in the directory "./" with a . (dot) in their name, the find will be executed will those files and subdirectories as argument.

This because the *'s are interpreted (expanded) by the shell prior to executing the find command.
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Old 02-06-2007
ls ./ > list.txt

I did it and it worked, but I don't see the difference with the commands you gave me. Smilie
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Old 02-06-2007
Differences are format output, content, and order. The -R and -a option to ls will list all (-a) files recursively (-R) down the directory tree. The find command does the recursive automatically and also prints the .(dot) files. The find command will provide better output, but the same information may be obtained by the ls command, just broken out by subdirectory.

cd <dir> ; find . -print
cd <dir> ; find . -ls # I use the -ls option to find as much as the -print option
find <dir> -print |sort # if you want to guarantee order
 
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