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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2008List All Nested Folder Titles?
(Running Tiger 10.4.11) is there an easy way to create a list of all folder titles that are contained within a certain folder? Thank you. > (Running Tiger 10.4.11) is there an easy way to create a list of all > folder titles that are contained within a certain folder? > > Thank you. Open a terminal window. Type 'find ', then drag the Finder icon for the folder you want to look at into the terminal window, then type ' -type d -print > ~/folders.txt' and hit return. You'll end up with a list of every folder contained inside the folder you dragged. The list will be in a file named folders.txt in your home directory. If you only want to list the immediate children, put '-maxdepth 1 ' before the '-print' part. > Open a terminal window. > Type 'find ', then drag the Finder icon for the folder you want to look [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > If you only want to list the immediate children, put '-maxdepth 1 ' > before the '-print' part. Thanks! I knew there had to be a way... ;-) > > Open a terminal window. > > Type 'find ', then drag the Finder icon for the folder you want to look [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Thanks! I knew there had to be a way... ;-) BBEdit has an Edit->Insert->Folder Listing command that captures a catalog of a folder's contents, and may have some options for the depth to which it goes. You can select, copy and paste into a text editor the list of the contents of a folder displayed in List mode in a Finder window > > > Open a terminal window. > > > Type 'find ', then drag the Finder icon for the folder you want to look [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > You can select, copy and paste into a text editor the list of the > contents of a folder displayed in List mode in a Finder window Works, and I believe it's in TextWrangler (free) as well. But there's no way to restrict it to listing folders. > > > Open a terminal window. > > > Type 'find ', then drag the Finder icon for the folder you want to look [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > You can select, copy and paste into a text editor the list of the > contents of a folder displayed in List mode in a Finder window TextWrangler also has this feature.  SignaturePaul Sture Sue's OpenVMS bookmarks: http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~sture/ovms-bookmarks.html Jeff in LA: > > (Running Tiger 10.4.11) is there an easy way to create a list of all > > folder titles that are contained within a certain folder? Gregory Weston: > Open a terminal window. > Type 'find ', then drag the Finder icon for the folder you want to look [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > If you only want to list the immediate children, put '-maxdepth 1 ' > before the '-print' part. Sorry, but I'm going to put your answer down as a "No, there is not an /easy/ way, but you can do this... An example of an /easy/ /way/ would be "Right click on the folder name. From the contextual menu, select "List all subfolders." Or, get FolderLister (free) at <http://www.coolosxapps.net/2007/05/24/folderlister-print-a-directory-li sting/>. Works under 10.5.2. Davoud Signatureusenet *at* davidillig dawt com > Jeff in LA: > > > (Running Tiger 10.4.11) is there an easy way to create a list of all [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Sorry, but I'm going to put your answer down as a "No, there is not an > /easy/ way, but you can do this... Going to make a habit of assuming I meant something I never said? While there are certainly easiER possibilities, I don't think you can reasonably defend classifying "enter verbatim this short command" as difficult. The OP didn't seem to consider it troublesome. G > (Running Tiger 10.4.11) is there an easy way to create a list of all > folder titles that are contained within a certain folder? You can run this command in a terminal window to get such a list: find /path/to/folder -type d If you want to prevent it from listing sub-directory contents, then add the '-maxdepth 1' switch, like so: find /path/to/folder -type d -maxdepth 1 TIP: You can drag any folder into a terminal window to copy the path into the command line. For example: # find /Users/jollyroger -type d -maxdepth 1 /Users/jollyroger /Users/jollyroger/.ssh /Users/jollyroger/.Trash /Users/jollyroger/.Xcode /Users/jollyroger/Desktop /Users/jollyroger/Documents /Users/jollyroger/Downloads /Users/jollyroger/Library /Users/jollyroger/Movies /Users/jollyroger/Music /Users/jollyroger/Pictures /Users/jollyroger/Public /Users/jollyroger/Sites SignatureNote: Please send all responses to the relevant news group. If you must contact me through e-mail, let me know when you send email to this address so that your email doesn't get eaten by my SPAM filter. JR |
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