I know that I can do shell commands from the terminal.
Yes, that is old school. OS 9 and before actually has better facility with printing directory listings.
I tried the copy and paste and could not get it to work.
What happened? I tried it with TextEdit just to double check my memory before posting that. If you use TextEdit, you have to Format > Make Plain Text first.
I am working on a automater word flow.
Nothing wrong with learning to use Automator, but that is a lot of hard work for something that should just be a few keystrokes.
