AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Export list of files ina folder mac terminal11/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Then you blithely suggest that i should restore from the backup that i ran prior to attempting this. the logical consequence of not catching this is to catastrophically move files - with potentially no option to UNDO - or tellingly at least no advice to make sure to run an Undo if it screws up for some reason.įor instance, my Finder Find interface right now shows This Mac, All My Files, and Shared. Where to start? stop and think about this for a minute.įirst off, you gave me advice to use finder to move all files from a folder - whereas the other poster suggested i use terminal commands - and the very real result of this suggestion for /anyone/ including expert users is to not catch and/or not see and/or not understand what is being searched in what by any stretch of the imagination is a visually un-intuitive Finder interface for the Search Function. I just went back to look to check the folder that i moved everything to just in case and i am actually thinking that i have made a big mistake while time machine is off. or god forbid all my documents from THIS MAC or something? i mean, there does not appear to be any way to determine that i am actually searching this one folder that i opened that is on my desktop /except/ by assuming that it was the window that was in fact open when i ran CMD + F.Īm i missing something here or do you know what i mean? i mean, if i happened to accidentally click on another open finder window before running CMD + F there would be no way for me to know that i was about to move a bajillion files from the wrong folder. There is something really sort of confusing about this (i am on ML at the moment) in that the FINDER window that gets opened up just says "searching This Mac" at the top and then it shows "Search: This Mac | All My Files" in the top just under the title of the window. if you want to recursively list the entire contents use ls -R > ~/Desktop/listing.Oh gosh, i think i just made a big mistake here. ![]() This is going to produce the contents only for that folder, not it's subfolders. Optional: Open listing.txt on your Desktop and confirm the contents match the directory.listing.txt will get created on your Desktop. ![]() Inside the terminal window type ls > ~/Desktop/listing.txt (making sure that listing.txt isn't the name of a file that already exists on your desktop) then hit enter.Drag the directory you want a listing of into the terminal window, then hit the enter key inside the terminal window.It should contain the directory you want a listing of) Open the parent window of the directory you want a listing of in finder (One folder / directory up from the one you want a listing of.Inside the terminal window, type cd then a space.Open Terminal.app from the utilities folder.Did not work.Īt the end of the day I ended up purchasing a paid app, but since I use several different user accounts across several machines, I would love to know if there is an easier and free way that I can use in the future. Terminal: Some courageous experts have shared how to do it with Terminal, but I'm not super comfortable with it, and most importantly, the Volume I tried to execute the command on didn't load ( "No such file or directory") - maybe because there are spaces in my Volume names? ( this tip did not work when trying to add a Volume name with spaces in a Terminal prompt to output file names.). TextWrangler: The output is ok, but I feel like I would like to have more options regarding how many levels deep the exported file list is, otherwise I end up with 33k lines of text. I could present the folder in List format in the Finder window, but then I would have to manually open all the folders one by one before copying/pasting. TextEdit: If I select all the folders on the volume, for example when the Finder window is presenting them in a column, then Copy then Paste into a Plain Text document, only the names of the folders will be copied, not the contents. Things I have tried so far that didn't work: I would like to export a list of files contained in a Volume into legible text, or a spreadsheet document that I can easily share. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |