Thanks Steve I knew it could be done, I just didn't know how and you help. I will say this information and get it done. Gigi
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Steve Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > This might sound a bit geeky because I'm going to suggest a command to use in > Terminal. So here it goes. > > 1. Go into the Terminal app > 2. Type cd followed by the name of the folder you want to work in. > 3. You can verify which folder you're actually in by typing 'pwd' with out > the quotes and see the name of the folder it gives back to you. > > 4. Now type 'ls -1 >files.txt' without the quotes. > This command lists all the files in the current directory or folder with each > file name on a separate line. the ">files.txt" tells the system to redirect > the output of the ls command into a file called files.txt. From here, you > can go back to familiar territory > with the finder and view this file in that folder with any normal text editor. > > Hope this helps. > > On Oct 21, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Guys. >> I have a number of files, about 64 of them, that I wish to braille >> translate. They are all in one fobbder. I have Louis on my Mac, and as best >> I can figure, there is no way to tell the program to qoanslate the whole >> folder and name the files in another one with the extension brl on the end. >> As far as I can see, you have to type in each file name. To do this more >> efficiently, I need to make a directory listing, preferably into a file that >> I could open in TextEdit or Pages. This way, I can keep up with which files >> I've done already. How do I get a directory listing on this folder into a >> file? Failing that, how do I just get the folder's directory so that I can >> copy each file by hand first if necessary. I realize I could just go down >> the listing and copy the names on a brailler if necessary. I don't want to >> do that unless I have to. Have any ideas guys? >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
