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What command to use to output to a text file?

Started bySharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
First post2021-06-23 14:40 +0200
Last post2021-06-23 15:10 +0200
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  What command to use to output to a text file? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2021-06-23 14:40 +0200
    Re: What command to use to output to a text file? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 15:10 +0200
      Re: What command to use to output to a text file? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-06-23 16:50 +0200
      Re: What command to use to output to a text file? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2021-06-23 16:50 +0200
    Re: What command to use to output to a text file? steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-06-23 15:10 +0200

#236356 — What command to use to output to a text file?

FromSharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Date2021-06-23 14:40 +0200
SubjectWhat command to use to output to a text file?
Message-ID<CtakG-6nm-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
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I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament?

I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive
mounted in a caddy.

How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the
drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the
syntax of it/them please?

Thanks
    Sharon.    
- -- 
Debian 10.9, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 28.0.50, org 9.4.6
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#236359

FromAndrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Date2021-06-23 15:10 +0200
Message-ID<CtaNH-6Mu-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#236356

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On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 
> I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament?
> 
> I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive
> mounted in a caddy.
> 
> How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the
> drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the
> syntax of it/them please?

It's unclear what information you expect to have in the text file, 
please elaborate on that (preferably with examples).

For a simple listing of files with full path something like below should 
do what you want:

    cd /path/to/external_drive
    find > files_on_external_drive.txt


Hope this helps,
Andrei
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http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#236372

FromJude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
Date2021-06-23 16:50 +0200
Message-ID<Ctcmu-7x4-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#236359
ls could be used with the following suffix:
ls <target-dir> | tee -f listing.txt


On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> >
> > I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament?
> >
> > I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive
> > mounted in a caddy.
> >
> > How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the
> > drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the
> > syntax of it/them please?
>
> It's unclear what information you expect to have in the text file,
> please elaborate on that (preferably with examples).
>
> For a simple listing of files with full path something like below should
> do what you want:
>
>     cd /path/to/external_drive
>     find > files_on_external_drive.txt
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andrei
>

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#236374

FromSharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Date2021-06-23 16:50 +0200
Message-ID<Ctcmu-7x4-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#236359
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Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> 
>> I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament?
>> 
>> I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive
>> mounted in a caddy.
>> 
>> How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the
>> drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the
>> syntax of it/them please?
>
> It's unclear what information you expect to have in the text file, 
> please elaborate on that (preferably with examples).
>
> For a simple listing of files with full path something like below should 
> do what you want:
>
>     cd /path/to/external_drive
>     find > files_on_external_drive.txt
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andrei

Thank you very much Andrei, this solved the problem very easily.

Thanks
    Sharon.
- -- 
Debian 10.9, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 28.0.50, org 9.4.6
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#236360

Fromsteve <dlist@bluewin.ch>
Date2021-06-23 15:10 +0200
Message-ID<CtaNI-6Mu-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#236356
Hi,

>How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the
>drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the
>syntax of it/them please?

Not sure I understand perfectly, but for example with

ls -l > my_text_file.txt

you will get the output of 'ls -l' in the file my_text_file.txt

The '>' does the trick.

If you want to append some text to an already existing file, use '>>'.

Hope that helps.

Best

Steve

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