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# 1  
Old 03-30-2011
List directories, subs and files
Hi,

I try to list all files in a folder, including all the subdirs (and their subdirs) and all files contained in each of these folders. I then print it to a simple txt file.

I use ls -R -1 >test.txt

This sort of does what I need, yet, the result is something like:
Quote:
directory1
directory2
file1.txt
file2.txt

./directory1:
directory11

./directory11:
text-in-dir11.txt
It reasonably comes close, yet it would be a lot more conveniant if it resulted in somethin like:
Quote:
directory1
./directory1/directory11
text-in-dir11.txt
./directory1/directory12
directory2
file1.txt
file2.txt
# 2  
Old 03-30-2011
You should use the command find instead

Code:
# find . -type d ! -name \. | while read a
do echo DIRECTORY : ${a##*/}
find $a -type f -prune
done

will for example give :

Code:
DIRECTORY : taitai
./taitai/tutututu
DIRECTORY : tyty
./tyty/tyty.f
./tyty/toutou/toutou.f
./tyty/toutou/whatever/whatever.f
DIRECTORY : toutou
./tyty/toutou/toutou.f
./tyty/toutou/whatever/whatever.f
DIRECTORY : whatever
./tyty/toutou/whatever/whatever.f

or you can just

Code:
find . ! -name \.

use the -type f or -type d options
see
Code:
man find

Last edited by ctsgnb; 03-30-2011 at 11:52 AM..
# 3  
Old 03-30-2011
Brilliant
This indeed works perfectly.

Now I only need to figur out how to do this in command promt. But thanks for the swift reply.
# 4  
Old 03-30-2011
What are you trying to achieve ?
# 5  
Old 04-01-2011
Thanks again for the reply.

I try to achieve the following:
List all dirs, subdirs and files + the file type (dir, file, symlink...) + folder it belongs to and a unique incremental ID (in the folder I navigated to)

This to get a list of all files and dirs, so I can process it in excel.

In other words for the following folder dirs/files:
Code:
Folder 1
-- Folder 1.1
---- File 1.1.1
---- File 1.1.2
Folder 2
-- Folder 2.1
-- Folder 2.2

To print it out as:
Code:
(--ID1--) ./Folder 1 (--Directory--)
(--ID2--) ./Folder 1/Folder 1.1 (--Directory--) (--./Folder 1--)
(--ID3--) ./Folder 1/Folder 1.1/File 1.1.1 (--File--) (--./Folder 1/Folder 1.1--)
(--ID4--) ./Folder 1/Folder 1.1/File 1.1.2 (--File--) (--./Folder 1/Folder 1.1--) (--./Folder 1--)  
(--ID5--) ./Folder 2 (--Directory--)  
(--ID6--) ./Folder 2/Folder 2.1 (--Directory--) (--./Folder 2--)   
(--ID7--) ./Folder 2/Folder 2.2 (--Directory--) (--./Folder 2--)

# 6  
Old 04-01-2011
Something like this ?

Code:
find . -ls | awk '{print $3,$11}'

Code:
$ find . -ls | awk '{print $3,$11}'
drwxr-xr-x .
-rw-r--r-- ./in
-rw-r--r-- ./infile
-rw-r--r-- ./e.dFp
drwxr-xr-x ./tyty
-rw-r--r-- ./tyty/tyty.f
drwxr-xr-x ./tyty/toutou
-rw-r--r-- ./tyty/toutou/toutou.f
drwxr-xr-x ./tyty/toutou/whatever
-rw-r--r-- ./tyty/toutou/whatever/whatever.f
$

---------- Post updated at 05:42 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:37 PM ----------

You could even Take the inode as the ID (so it will be uniq)

Code:
find . -ls | awk '{print $1,$3,$11}'


Code:
$ find . -ls | awk '{print$1,$3,$11}'
6253 drwxr-xr-x .
6160 -rw-r--r-- ./in
6488 -rw-r--r-- ./infile
7871 -rw-r--r-- ./e.dFp
9008 drwxr-xr-x ./tyty
9009 -rw-r--r-- ./tyty/tyty.f
9010 drwxr-xr-x ./tyty/toutou
9011 -rw-r--r-- ./tyty/toutou/toutou.f
9012 drwxr-xr-x ./tyty/toutou/whatever
9013 -rw-r--r-- ./tyty/toutou/whatever/whatever.f
$

Last edited by ctsgnb; 04-01-2011 at 12:47 PM..
# 7  
Old 04-01-2011
Man, thanks a lot!

I indeed thought I should use ls. Will look into what the above code actually does.

But not exactly what I need. Let me give a very clear example:
Folder 1
-- File 1 (belongs to folder 1)
Folder 2
-- Folder 2-1
---- File 2

Resulting in
Folder 1 (Directory) (root)
File 2 (File) (Folder 1)
Folder 2 (Directory) (root)
Folder 2-1 (Directory) (Folder 2)
File 2 (File) (Folder 2-1)
 
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