John,
Here is something that might get you what you want
Say you want to list all directories under directory foo
find foo -type d
this just print the names of the directories
If you want something similar to what 'ls -l' would say,
find foo -type d -ls
The out of this is like the following
97914840 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 steved steved 4096 Nov 30 23:45 foo
with find you can't customize the output.
ls allows you more choices about what to display but would be hard to
just do directories.
find foo -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;
would give you just the directories, using the ls long format.
You could just pipe the output into lpr, or redirect output to a file
and then print it.
steve
John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I wish to print a list of directories (but not the files or
> subdirectories contained in the directories) on Xubuntu 12.04 (up to
> date). I normally use the GUI file manager Thunar, but it has no menu
> item to print anything. There is, however, Edit > Configure custom
> actions, which appears to require me to use xfprint with specific
> options, but I haven't found much information about using xfprint.
>
> I suspect this might be easier from the command line, but I don't know
> where to start looking for the right tool. That is, I have used lpr in
> the past and I have a fair idea of what the available options are, but
> lpr seems to be useful only for printing the contents of a file, not
> for printing a list of folders.
>
> Suggestions?
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