Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Steve Dum wrote: > Here is something that might get you what you want > Say you want to list all directories under directory foo >find foo -type d Yet, 'ls -d */' is simpler still for listing all directories in the current directory. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: John> I wish to print a list of directories (but not the files or John> subdirectories contained in the directories) on Xubuntu 12.04 (up John> to date). I normally use the GUI file manager Thunar, but it has John> no menu item to

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Bill Morita wrote: > What about using "tree" ? Bill, According to the man page it produces a list as a tree of all directories and the files in each. John want(ed|s) to list only subdirectories under the current working directory. Thanks for making me aware of tree.

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

What about using "tree" ? -- Bill Morita 512-569-6387 (Cell) On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Steve Dum wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

There is an option to show only directories -- Bill Morita 512-569-6387 (Cell) On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Bill Morita wrote: > > > What about using "tree" ? > > Bill, > >According to the man page it produces a list

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 06:00:38AM -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > > "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: > > John> I wish to print a list of directories (but not the files or > John> subdirectories contained in the directories) on Xubuntu 12.04 (up > John> to date). I

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

Thanks for the additional suggestions - so many options! However, the initial suggestion to send the output of ls to a simple text file did the job. The only thing that might have made it a bit more elegant would have been to concatenate another command to send the text file to the printer with

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

On 12/12/2015 10:08 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Thanks for the additional suggestions - so many options! However, the > initial suggestion to send the output of ls to a simple text file did > the job. The only thing that might have made it a bit more elegant > would have been to concatenate

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

Want: I wish to print a list of directories (but not the files or subdirectories contained in the directories) The short answer find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d the find program is your friend, but one you will love and hate at the same time, even I have to still do a man or info find.

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

oh what the heck, off to the printer, how wide is the fixed font output on your printer, if it support postscript take a look at enscript, just like find is has a zillon options have a dumb printer ? take the above and ...| column -c | lpr -P On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Pete

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

I forgot (still having my morning caffine) I forgot to have find strip off the starting directory so onto the printf options, another one with a zillon options the entity you only want is the 'filename' (I didn't write the man page), what they really mean is 'what entity find finds'. In this

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

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

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

On 11/28/2015 10:19 AM, 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,

[PLUG] Print list of folders

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

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Suggestions? John, 'ls -d */' lists all directories under the current directory. You can then pipe the output to lpr and send the output to the printer of your choice using the -P option to lpr. Example: ls -d */ | lpr HTH, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Print list of folders

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 10:30:40 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >ls is the command line tool. There are, as usual, many options to use >with ls. (See man ls.) When I need to do something like this, which is >rare, I use ls -1 to get everything in the directory listed one item