How To Get File Listings As Text

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macmost.com/e-3128 If you need a file listing to use in a document you can get it by copying and pasting from the Finder if you know a trick. But you can also get file listings as text from the Terminal and then wrap that command into a Shortcut.
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00:00 Intro
00:49 Copy and Paste From the Finder
01:57 Copy and Paste With Subfolders
03:56 Cleaning Up the Output
06:34 List Files In the Terminal
12:06 Putting the Terminal Command In a Shortcut
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@einsteinparrot 2 ай бұрын

great tip! Thanks so much!

@Erin-Thor Ай бұрын

Once again you have hit a home run! I learn SOMETHING in every video you do. 👍🏽🤓👍🏼

@rgarlinyc 2 ай бұрын

Very insightful - thanks a ton Gary!

@bitsmith 2 ай бұрын

Bravo Gary! Love the use of a CLI pipeline and regular expressions wrapped up in a Shortcut to come up with a great solution! Thanks again for showing off the non-obvious power under the hood of macOS.

@carolinebarlow4795 2 ай бұрын

Thanks very much, Gary, for this informative video! Really useful methods here.

@vrvretro 2 ай бұрын

Fabulous! Gary, you're the best.

@kqschwarz 2 ай бұрын

Unbelievably useful tips and fabulous presentation.

@garynagle3093 2 ай бұрын

Wow!!! Another great video!

@loisskiathitis8926 2 ай бұрын

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

@SoNowWhat 2 ай бұрын

Oh, will this tutorial come in handy. Many thanks.

@Slave-Of-Christ 2 ай бұрын

St. Gary!

@philiprand3720 2 ай бұрын

I thought CSV served to transmit Contact items, but I'll explore its potential for dealing with pdfs and making them palatable for a spreadsheet. Infinite thanks again.

@xultrac 2 ай бұрын

This trick with the Finder is amazing. Thank you

@davidpatrick1813 2 ай бұрын

Amazing work, thanks

@AussieAdventurer 2 ай бұрын

Your knowledge is absolutely amazing 🤩 Thank you for sharing this video 🙏

@MosheFeder 2 ай бұрын

Gary, this is great, but I really want is an app that will do something similar for my iPhone and iPad. It should not just produce a list, but pull the description of each app from the App Store.

@cemgencler5127 2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! This was what I needed for my book archive.

@denhouse1 2 ай бұрын

As usual, very impressive and useful

@user-ui2wi6sw9f 2 ай бұрын

Excellent, thanks!

@robertmarkusneiger6810 2 ай бұрын

excellent, thank you

@escapelevel1 2 ай бұрын

I've always wanted to know how to do this!!

@bhavearth 2 ай бұрын

Thanks, the shortcut tip is awesome

@philiprand3720 2 ай бұрын

Again many thanks! As for my bank statements, I'll experiment with Preview (Anteprima in Italian).which is terrific in many ways, but I'm sure my "commercialista" /accountant) will cope with PDF. She is probably Windows, but I think a Numbers file is perfectly readable to an Excel user.

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

Excel can't read Numbers files. But you can easily export from Numbers to Excel format.

@JonBushell 2 ай бұрын

Great! I think you can drag folder contents to excel too and it will make a file listing. But only works in Mac apparently.

@macforme 2 ай бұрын

Only works in Mac? is there something else?..... 😂🤣🤣🤣 nay! nay!

@stephenbridges2791 2 ай бұрын

Nice ideas. You could just make a recursive list with ls -R and arrow it out to a plain text file, as well. I generally do that with the current date when searching through music and the like. I don't have enough documents to have to do it.

@philiprand3720 2 ай бұрын

Right, in fact I was sure that Numbers to Excel wouldn't be a problem. I'lll experiment with PDF in Preview (Anteprima).

@wiwingmargahayu6831 2 ай бұрын

wow

@garrysingh4484 2 ай бұрын

💡Automator or Shortcut is your best friend: You won't have to deal with removing folders in the listing. I have been using Automator to achieve this for years: - Create a Java script to get the file path - Add copy to clipboard

@grahamf695 2 ай бұрын

Hi Gary, thanks this is really useful. I need to take this a step further. I went on holiday with a group of people and I am going to share my photos with them. I have carefully added titles, headlines (just a copy of the titles in my case) and descriptions to the file metadata, using a photo editing application. I am not sure whether my friends will be able to look at the metadata. Therefore, I would like to produce a simple spreadsheet or document with the filename in column 1, title or headline in column 2, and the description in column 3, and GPS location data in column 4. This data does not appear in the Finder window, but it does appear when I right click on the file in Finder and select Get Info. Do you know if there is a way to do this?

@macmost 2 ай бұрын

Sorry, I don't know of a simple way to do this. Why make this so complex when apps like Photos (or Google Photos, etc) make it so easy to share photos with friends?

@grahamf695 2 ай бұрын

@@macmost Hi Gary, I used Photos and iCloud sharing with my family and I agree that is the easiest way to do it. The title and description appear in Photos, so that works fine for me. However, some of my friends are not very computer literate. They won't know where to find the photo metadata on their computers. They might just store the photos in a Windows folder, rather than using Google Photos or equivalent.