Need a Printed List of Files...

[Mattaus]

Hi all,

Quick question here. I have a folder that contains a lot of movies in it. I would like to obtain a printed list of these files so I can cross check them against another checklist I have.

Basically I want to just spit the list out to a text file so I can email it to myself at work.

What would the best way to go about doing that be?

Could I grep the output of an ls command and redirect it to another file or something?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers.

EDIT: Sorry, opened my mouth before using my head.

I guess this would work fine:


ls -1 | sort > temp.txt

- Matt.

[Mark Phelps]

There may be ways to do that with various file managers, but using the "ls" command as you have indicated is certainly the way I would do it.

[raptor2552]

or you could send the output to the printer:


ls -1 | sort |lpr

[achase79]

you can set the output of ls to a text file

ls > sample.txt

[Polaris96]

ls > movielist.txt

You can open the textfile with any app from a terminal text editor (nano or vim) to a word processor. it will save to whatever directory you're in when you type the command. I would print it from openoffice, so you can snazz it up if you feel like it.

[Mattaus]

I'm just really using it as a check list so I can tell what XBMC has and has not picked up on. From what I can tell so far it has not found much :-(