12-01-2011, 04:03 PM

When I generate a directory listing w/ a PC, i use cmd: "dir /b/s" and this will generate a list of my files with each file's path in front of it (ex: rootfolder\subfolder\file.txt). I can easily manipulate this in excel to upload files to my database with a directory command.

How can I get the same results from Terminal? I have been using "ls -lR", and getting a list, however it only lists the parent folder once, then all file names beneath... then the next parent folder name, all file names, etc. I need to see the individual path in front of each file name that is generated.

This has been stunting my progress for a while now, and any help is greatly appreciated!!

12-01-2011, 10:12 PM

du -ah will do this (with human readable file sizes)

example output:

mikeMBP-2:Installs mike$ du -ah
 16K	./.DS_Store
2.0G	./adobepe9.dmg
 91M	./CEP-3.0-WacomEdition6-3.110.dmg
264M	./ColorMunkiDisplay101.zip
 80M	./lensprofile_creator_p3_mac_042711.dmg
1.0M	./lensprofile_downloader_p3_102510.air
 16K	./Lion installs/.DS_Store
3.5G	./Lion installs/InstallESD.dmg
3.5G	./Lion installs
1.5M	./LionTweaks.zip
7.0M	./LRMogrify2.lrplugin.zip
10.0M	./onOne_PerfectPresets_LR.dmg
 69M	./PhotoTools_2.6.3_Free.pkg.zip
120K	./Resuminator.zip
 61M	./sketch_pad_de_fr_en.dmg
2.9M	./SuperDuper!.dmg
8.0K	./Wacom_Brushes_3/.DS_Store
 12K	./Wacom_Brushes_3/Wacom Brushes 3 Readme.rtf
312K	./Wacom_Brushes_3/Wacom Brushes 3.abr
332K	./Wacom_Brushes_3
6.1G	.

There are probably a thousand ways to pull this off, it is Unix after all, but du's the easiest IMO.

This also works well.

mikeMBP-2:Installs mike$ find . -type d -exec ls -lR  {} ';'
total 5414304
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff    95862481 Feb 16  2011 CEP-3.0-WacomEdition6-3.110.dmg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff   277045436 Sep 26 09:37 ColorMunkiDisplay101.zip
-rw-------@ 1 mike  staff     7306367 Aug 27 20:45 LRMogrify2.lrplugin.zip
drwxr-xr-x  4 mike  staff         136 Dec  1 20:11 Lion installs
-rw-------@ 1 mike  staff     1562599 Sep 26 20:38 LionTweaks.zip
-rw-------@ 1 mike  staff    72755047 Aug  7 23:20 PhotoTools_2.6.3_Free.pkg.zip
-rw-------@ 1 mike  staff      121243 Sep 26 19:21 Resuminator.zip
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff     3036322 Aug 16 19:12 SuperDuper!.dmg
drwx------@ 5 mike  staff         170 Aug  7 21:49 Wacom_Brushes_3
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff  2154935181 Feb 16  2011 adobepe9.dmg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff    83972878 Aug 23 22:27 lensprofile_creator_p3_mac_042711.dmg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff     1048833 Aug 23 22:27 lensprofile_downloader_p3_102510.air
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff    10485760 Aug  8 09:07 onOne_PerfectPresets_LR.dmg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff    63967232 Mar 20  2009 sketch_pad_de_fr_en.dmg

./Lion installs:
total 7310568
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff  3743009943 Jul 20 06:37 InstallESD.dmg

./Wacom_Brushes_3:
total 648
-rwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff    8453 Jun  8  2007 Wacom Brushes 3 Readme.rtf
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 mike  staff  317083 Jun 12  2007 Wacom Brushes 3.abr
total 7310568
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mike  staff  3743009943 Jul 20 06:37 InstallESD.dmg
total 648
-rwxr-xr-x  1 mike  staff    8453 Jun  8  2007 Wacom Brushes 3 Readme.rtf
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 mike  staff  317083 Jun 12  2007 Wacom Brushes 3.abr

12-02-2011, 01:24 AM

Major. Thanks a lot.

12-02-2011, 08:16 AM

find can do the job in real simple without having to pipe outputs through awk if you are just need filepaths.

$ find .
.
./.gitignore
./app
./app/assets
./app/assets/images
./app/assets/images/rails.png
./app/assets/javascripts
./app/assets/javascripts/application.js
./app/assets/javascripts/home.js.coffee
./app/assets/javascripts/posts.js.coffee
./app/assets/stylesheets
./app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
./app/assets/stylesheets/home.css.scss
./app/assets/stylesheets/posts.css.scss
./app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css.scss
./app/controllers
./app/controllers/application_controller.rb
./app/controllers/home_controller.rb
./app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
./app/helpers

12-02-2011, 08:57 AM

Yeah, I always want file sizes and last modified dates. Habit, ya know.