[SOLVED] How to create a catalog text file in Mageia 2 ?

[onikage]

Hello,
I have a directory on my HDD that is full of subdirectories containing .pdf and other documents that I want to list into a simple text file.

For example if Directory "A" contains file1.pdf, file2.pdf, file3.pdf, I want to create a text list that goes like that (or similar):
--- A (dir name) ---
file1.pdf
file2.pdf
file3.pdf

---B---
etc....

I would do it manually but there are over 1000 .pdf documents in these folders and I want to automate the process. Any ideas how ? Thanks.

[tom_]

open a terminal and type

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find /folder_with_your_subfolder -name "*.pdf"

should give you the list

NB: untested, but I'm confident it works

[onikage]

open a terminal and type

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find /folder_with_your_subfolder -name "*.pdf"

should give you the list

NB: untested, but I'm confident it works

Thanks it worked.

[doktor5000]

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find /folder_with_your_subfolder -name "*.pdf"

Minor nitpick:
Better use -iname option to ignore case, as *nix is case-sensitive.
If there's a file with a .PDF suffix instead of .pdf it will not be contained in that listing

[onikage]

Cool. Thanks.