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output a dir's filenames to a txt file

how can i make a one-name-per-line text file from the filenames of a directory? thanks for any help

Luke

PS I know it uses sed or something, but my attempts are not working!

probably no help and you know it already

make file /my/dir/whatever.txt

#cd mydir for list
#script /my/dir/whatever.txt
#ls

lists

then format


newbie way but all i can say

ls -1 > myfile.txt

may be irix specific - check your man page:

man ls

to get a one-name-per-line text file from the filenames of a directory, you can do this :

ls /path/to/dir/ > /path/to/dir/filenames.txt

That should do it.

-Eric










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