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Ankit Raonka
Ankit Raonka

Reputation: 6857

How to extract name of all files contained in a folder into a .txt file?

I want to extract name of all files contained in a folder into a .txt file for ex: when we type ls command in terminal it shows list all the files and folder names. Can we store all these names in a .txt file.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2940

Answers (3)

Martin Carpella
Martin Carpella

Reputation: 12603

If you really care about files and want to skip directories, I'd use find.

find . -type f --mindepth 1 --maxdepth 1 >> list.txt

Note, that this list will also contain list.txt, as it is created before spawning find in the current directory.

The advantage of using find instead of ls is that it will include "hidden" files (files starting with a . in their name).

Upvotes: 0

kittykittybangbang
kittykittybangbang

Reputation: 2400

By using the > character, a command's output can be written to a named file. For example, 

ls > list.txt

This will directly post the output of the ls command into the file list.txt. However, this will also overwrite anything that's in list.txt. To append to the end of a file instead of overwriting, use >>:

ls >> list.txt

This will leave the previous contents of list.txt in tact, and add the output of ls to the end of the file.

Upvotes: 1

iobender
iobender

Reputation: 3486

You can redirect the output of the ls command to a file with > like so:

ls > files.txt

Note this will overwrite any previous contents of files.txt. To append, use >> instead like so:

ls >> files.txt

Upvotes: 3

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