On the terminal tip without needing to copy and paste.
1) Open Up terminal or even better iTerm
2) cd to Applications i.e cd /Applications
3) Run the command to list your apps into a text file
- ls -l > list.txt
To include apps listed in subdirectories just add the recurse arg.
- ls -l -R > list.txt
4) If you want that to be useful in a spreadsheet such as ms Excel then use the
.csv extension instead e.g ls -l > listx.csv
In this example the list.txt file is created in your apps directory but you can
specify any path.
Mike.
On 06/06/2012, at 10:21 AM, Jane Griffiths wrote:
>
> Carlo's original posting was in relation to a query I mentioned at last
> night's Wamug meeting, which related to copy and pasting a list of
> applications from the Applications Folder into a Numbers spreadsheet.
>
> The problem I was having was that I could successfully paste the list into an
> Excel spreadsheet, but when I pasted the same list into a Numbers spreadsheet
> the list of applications would be repeated up to 4 times in the Numbers
> spreadsheet.
> Both Numbers and Excel successfully convert the copied and pasted list of
> apps into text, but only Numbers erroneously duplicates the list.
>
> It is easy enough to delete the 3 unwanted copies of the list from the
> spreadsheet, but I was wondering why this unusual behaviour is happening in
> Numbers?
>
> OS X 10.7.4
> Numbers '09 V2.1
> Excel for Mac 2011 V14.2.2
>
> At the meeting, Carlo showed how to create a text list of applications from
> the Applications Folder using Terminal (the instructions that Carlo posted to
> the Wamug site last night).
>
>
> Cheers
> Jane
>
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