file tree on mac as text file --a program for this?

[whyrichard]

Is there a free way to create a text file of all the files in my mac?


preferably with the folder heirarchy?


thanks,
r.

 

[robbieduncan]

Open the Terminal. Change to the directory you want to start in and type:

find * name > ~/Desktop/tree.txt

After some time the file tree.txt on your Desktop will contain a list of all files in all directories from the point you start at.

If you need to find out how to move around the folder tree at the Unix command line there are lots of guides out there.

 

[ChrisA]

Is there a free way to create a text file of all the files in my mac?
r.

The "ls -R" command. Pipe the output to a file. like this
"ls -R > somefilename.txt"

There are 1,000 variations of the above and you might use find or even echo in place of ls.

 

[whyrichard]

but is there a way to do this in a more controlled fashion... so that you can select the folders you want shown and then export that list outline as a text file...?

thanks for your help...

also need to do this on two windows computers.....

r.