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tsaxer

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Feb 24, 2004
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Tuscaloosa, AL
I'm not sure if this is the right board, but here goes...
I'm trying to find a way to put the path information of a lot (1000's) of sound files into a spreadsheet. The files are part of an experiment we are working on, and is organized in a 2-level folder (SoundFiles/person/speed/filename.wav).
Is there a way to do this? I've tried google, but I'm not quite sure what to search.
 
what exactly do you want the output to look like?

Am I correct in assuming that the folders look like:

SoundFiles/person0/speed0/filename_x.wav
SoundFiles/person0/speed0/filename_y.wav
SoundFiles/person0/speed1/filename_x.wav
SoundFiles/person0/speed1/filename_y.wav
SoundFiles/person1/speed0/filename_x.wav
SoundFiles/person1/speed0/filename_y.wav
...

Or something to that effect?
 
what exactly do you want the output to look like?

Am I correct in assuming that the folders look like:

SoundFiles/person0/speed0/filename_x.wav
SoundFiles/person0/speed0/filename_y.wav
SoundFiles/person0/speed1/filename_x.wav
SoundFiles/person0/speed1/filename_y.wav
SoundFiles/person1/speed0/filename_x.wav
SoundFiles/person1/speed0/filename_y.wav
...

Or something to that effect?

Yes, that is the general format. In each speed there are 210-250 files, So I would like to have a representation of what exists in the folders.
 
try the following in the SoundFiles directory in terminal:

Code:
find . -type f

That should get you some output that'll be easy enough to put into a spreadsheet. You can even go a step further, pipe the output to text file, replace the '/' between each directory with ',' and turn it into a csv file to make the import of the data that much easier.

Hope that helps.
 
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