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Old January 31st, 2002, 10:12 AM
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Question output a dir's filenames to a txt file
how can i make a one-name-per-line text file from the filenames of a directory? thanks for any help

Luke

PS I know it uses sed or something, but my attempts are not working!
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probably no help and you know it already

make file /my/dir/whatever.txt

#cd mydir for list
#script /my/dir/whatever.txt
#ls

lists

then format


newbie way but all i can say
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dir contents to file
ls -1 > myfile.txt

may be irix specific - check your man page:

man ls
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output a dir's filenames to a txt file
to get a one-name-per-line text file from the filenames of a directory, you can do this :

ls /path/to/dir/ > /path/to/dir/filenames.txt

That should do it.

-Eric
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