In Windows, I have a utility that generates a text list of the folder tree and/or files. Is there a Linux eqwuivalent?

If so, I need it for a system dual booted with Kubuntu (maybe Breezy, but also maybe Hoary) and Win2000Pro, where the Win2000 installation is broken and I'd like to examine the contents of various folders on the Windows C-drive.

At present, the Kubuntu installation isn't connecting to the net, so will have to do a manual install from files DLed on another computer and transferred via thumbdrive.

Finding it is just the first step! I've never installed manually from scratch, so preference would be for a utility that is simplest to install if there are more than one available.

Thanks!
Optiker

ls -R
?

Also try
ls -R >filename

Eww.. ls -R output is nasty, use tree instead.

And if you want to put the list into a file:

tree > filename

Are you looking for a graphical thingy, or just plain text output?

If it's the latter, you can run find /path/to/directory -print

I'm not familiar with graphical tools to do this, although I'm sure they must exist. I'm thinking you're wanting something like the pstree command for processes, except you want it for files/directories.

You mean like tree which I already pointed out?

Probably, because the name of the command implies it would do what the O.P. wants. But I can't say for sure, since I don't have that command on my system. I seem to remember a "tree", or "dirtree", or "dtree" command from way back ... I think from MSDOS, not from Linux/Unix. "tree" is not available on any of the Linux or Solaris boxes I normally work with.

Or, you could always do it the obvious way ...

tree can be found here: ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/

Comes default on Slackware installs as that's what it's packaged as but just downloading the binary file they have and placing in /usr/bin or somewhere in your path works with no problems, just tested on a Centos host, just have to make it executable. I remember older versions of Redhat and such also had it as an option, but most don't nowadays.

Hmmm...I'm not very experienced with Linux. Let me put it simply. I want some way to save to a text file, a list of all folders, subfolders and files within those folders. The only examples I can give are from Windows. These might be stand-alone utilities, or possibly what you might call extensions that integrate into Windows Explorer and appear in the drop-down menues when a folder is right-clicked. A nice file output is csv that can then be opened in a speadsheet and parsed to make it more organized, but a simple listing, one line for each file and/or folder, showing its patch is adequate.

As a not-very-skilled Linux user, I'm guessing that the replies so far are suggesting console commands. That's OK if necesary, but a GUI utility would obviously be more intuitive and thus easier for a novice like me.

Given all of that, thanks for the replies. I'll try to make some sense of them when I get home tonight in front of my Kubuntu system.

Optiker

Hmm.. What you say is more like
find >filename
.

About GUI - I am not sure that there exists GUI for one shell line.

Not sure if this is what you want. For one, it's command line, not GUI. But it will create a CSV file for you.
You CSV file will be saved in /tmp/listing.csv in this example. You can open the CSV file with Microsoft Excel if that's what you want. Or OpenOffice Calc, or Gnome's Gnumeric, or ...

haertig...OK, as intimidating and incomprehensible as it is, since I can just copy and paste, I'll try it. Indeed, the output that you describe sounds like what I'm after.

Will try it tonight and report back then.

Thanks all!

haertig...BTW, does this do just the directory, or does it also include all subdirectories? I need to get a fairly complete listing of my Windows C-drive - at a minimnum, the root and Windows directories and the subdirectories of the Windows directory.

Thanks again!
Optiker

Yes, it should list everything. All subdirectories and files.
That will take a while. I would expect over 100,000 files and directories for even a modest Windows installation! If you have user directories there ("Documents and Settings") then it could get quite a bit larger. Especially if you have lots of games installed. You could end up with a CSV file that exceeds the number of rows a spreadsheet program can handle. Can these programs digest a quarter million rows in one bite???!!! Never tried that myself. You theoretically could end up with that many.

OK - tried it...

bash: $: command not found

Fresh install of Kubuntu Edgy.

Suggestions?

Optiker

You don't type that dollar sign. That's supposed to represent your command prompt (i.e., what the computer displays to you indicating it's waiting for your input). Your prompt is probably not a simple dollar sign. That's a generic representation for a normal user's prompt, since they vary from distribution to distribution, and from person to person (personal preference). A pound sign ( # ) is the generic representation for the superuser prompt ... what you see when you're logged in as root.