What about using "tree" ? -- Bill Morita 512-569-6387 (Cell)
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Steve Dum <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > Here is something that might get you what you want > Say you want to list all directories under directory foo > find foo -type d > this just print the names of the directories > If you want something similar to what 'ls -l' would say, > find foo -type d -ls > The out of this is like the following > > 97914840 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 steved steved 4096 Nov 30 23:45 foo > > with find you can't customize the output. > ls allows you more choices about what to display but would be hard to > just do directories. > find foo -type d -exec ls -ld {} \; > would give you just the directories, using the ls long format. > > You could just pipe the output into lpr, or redirect output to a file > and then print it. > > steve > > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I wish to print a list of directories (but not the files or > > subdirectories contained in the directories) on Xubuntu 12.04 (up to > > date). I normally use the GUI file manager Thunar, but it has no menu > > item to print anything. There is, however, Edit > Configure custom > > actions, which appears to require me to use xfprint with specific > > options, but I haven't found much information about using xfprint. > > > > I suspect this might be easier from the command line, but I don't know > > where to start looking for the right tool. That is, I have used lpr in > > the past and I have a fair idea of what the available options are, but > > lpr seems to be useful only for printing the contents of a file, not > > for printing a list of folders. > > > > Suggestions? > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
