creating a directory file..
 

need to be able to take a selected directory on my ftp and have it output every file into a .txt list format

ie

a.jpg
b.jpg
c.jpg


and so forth..

so what is it you are looking for or were you just posting to let us know what you were doing

need a program or if anyone knows any fast ways to have all the files listed in a directory output into a txt file

anything like this exist or am i giong crazy thinking there was something lol

Why don't you download them first and get a Mass File Renamer?

in Unix, log into the shell (use a telnet or ssh program)


ls >> filelist.txt


once you are in the directory you want. It will create filelist.txt with all the filenames. I personally like

ls -al >> filelist.txt


That's assuming you know how to move around in unix.
ZoiNk

I believe she wants a listing of the contents of a directory, not to rename files.

That's a Unix command.. where are our Unix geeks? Surely they are somewhere.

I'm having flashbacks to grep and whatnot, but can't remember the syntax.

Et voila!

I'm sure you could put it in a nice little script/batch pgm, non?

thats just it.. i dont have shell access.. hrmmm only other way is if i do that by downloading everything and writing the file from dos... thanx :)

anyone care to tell me what prefix i put beside "dir" in dos.. just did dir /? and cant see anything where a command would be to write to a file

prog:
----

#!/usr/bin/perl

$path = @ARGV[0];

system("ls -al $path > output.txt");

--

execution

./program.pl /path/you/want/to/list/

should work.

Your isp will probably give you shell access if you email them and ask for it.

dont have shell access though.. no ssh on the server..

not my isp its a ftp account i need to get all the filenames from for a dmca notice..

Yeah I caught that late. I can't live without a shell

yeah if i had shell access it would be alot easier.. coulda dumped it and did what i have to do and be gone..but of course my luck isnt that good :) .. i have all the files downloaded onto my hd just need to get a txt version listing all the files lol

n/m got it :) dir > textfilename.txt :)

thnx for the help though :)

I fucking suck at windows. About all I can think is open WS_FTP and press the DirInfo button on whatever directory you want a listing off. You'll have the text version of the directory information and you could probably narrow it from there.

good deal. remember that for the once in a blue moon I have to do something on my windows machine

yeah just took what i knew from shell and applied it to dos format :) wicked thanks alot everyone though.. time to go file a report :)