Re: Directories

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:25:24PM -0500, Ken Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:20, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > Paul Lewis wrote:
> > > On 2004.02.09 04:31 Ken M Sexton wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Greetings,
> > >>
> > >> For an inexperienced user the directory structure of Linux is not 
> > >> self-evident. Is there a command or a tool which will list the full 
> > >> directory tree (directories with sub-directories, even down to files 
> > >> therein if possible)?
> > >>
> > >> If not, can someone please tell me where the KMail mail boxes are 
> > >> located?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Try ls -R >listing.txt
> > 
> > Uh, that will only work for the current directory and it's children
> > and it may puke because ls may not be able to sort the files.  It
> > also won't show any files starting with ".".  The better form would
> > be "ls -Ra >listing.txt"
> > 
> > > or perhaps man ls at the command prompt might give you and idea of what 
> > > you want.
> > 
> > "find / -print >fulldirlisting.txt" will give you a listing of
> > EVERYTHING on the system.  Keep in mind that the list will be in inode
> > order, not alphabetically sorted as "ls" would give you.  You have been
> > warned!
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > 
> > 
> I sometimes use the handy utility "tree" which produces a ASCII based
> hierarchial output of directory contents (similar to the old DOS TREE
> command.  I can't recall if it came with Red Hat .  I believe I might
> have had to download/install it.
> Good Luck
> 
> Ken Scott

It is in the "tree" RPM on CD-3 of RH 9.

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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