List contents to txt file

[ibuclaw]

Seems that we are missing a decent one-liner though...

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -print | sort > ~/Desktop/contents.list

Or if you don't want the "/home/username" part in the list...

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -print | sort | rev | cut -f 1 -d '/' | rev > ~/Desktop/contents.txt

[EDIT]
May need to replace "$PWD" with "$1", as I've noticed in some examples here...
I've never used nautilus scripts before, so I wouldn't know...

Regards
Iain

[Diabolis]

haha great! It looks very hackish for such a simple task.

[kaibob]

Hello..
I know already how to list folder contents to a txt file...but i want to know to know if there is any nautilus script or i can someway integrate an option to right click menu??...

You can assign any of the numerous scripts in this thread to the right-click menu by way of the Nautilus Actions extension:

http://www.grumz.net/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/5/9

You apparently know about Nautilus scripts, and that is an alternative way to get the script on the right-click menu.

[3rods]

I like it.

Would be better if it wrote to a temp directory to be flushed out later and opened it self in gedit or similar...

[underground]

#!/bin/sh
cd "$1" && cat > ~/Desktop/contents.txt << EOF
`ls`
EOF

Oh, yeah!

This works wonderful

#!/bin/bash
echo '' >  ~/Desktop/contents.txt
cd "$1"
for i in * ; do
echo $i >> ~/Desktop/contents.txt
done 

I tried them but when i right click a folder in Desktop the contents of Desktop is being listed in the file..not the contents of the folder...i have to navigate inside the folder to do what i want...also..if i choose another folder to list contents the txt file is rewritten...it doesn't keep the old list...

Looks like the best way to do this is to use the script functionality of nautilus.

From a terminal:

sudo aptitude install nautilus-script-manager
touch ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/listem.sh
chmod 755 ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/listem.sh

Inside this file:

#!/bin/bash -x
ls -lt $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS >> /home/brad/test.txt

Now right click on a folder in nautilus ans notice your script. Try it out! Good luck.

This one works perfect...all the folders i choosed to list where all listed in the file...one after another...

Anyway thank you all very much for your work...i am happy that you helped me...
By the way where can i learn shell scripting??Is there any book??

[Diabolis]

Google is your friend:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search