is there a way to copy list of all folders sub folders 10.8.2

This sounds awesome Courcoul!
Thanks dude!

I'm definitely game to learn a bit! 🙂 😁

I was a kid in the last days of DOS, when it was a thing people used, on an old 486.

I can't remember it all exactly, but I remember how easy it was to navigate to old games that ran under DOS and other information.

Any commands like this I'm likely to use very often are worth knowing.

A third-party app to save my lazy brain the effort of typing commands is always good,

but I'm sure this will do just perfectly fine until / if I ever hear of one.

I'll try this a little later in the evening.

I'll let you know how I get along after I do it.

Cheers again!

is there a way to copy + paste folder locations of folders from finder [or somewhere] into terminal to save me constantly typing long location names ?

If I'm doing lots of deep subfolders, that's a lot of typing!

AWEEESOME!

Thank you so much Corcoul, Niel, and Topher !

This is all enormously useful stuff ! I can't describe how useful it is for me.

And you may have helped me find a quick solution w/ text wrangler, [aka. life-saving app!], as well as getting me excited to learn how to do some specifics with finder.

I might youtube "Terminal 101" for some education, but I'd probably spend hours trying to get the same info as I am here.

Niel, your comment made me realize I could just select a folder in finder, then "copy+paste" it into terminal, and that shows the full path.

I'm too clumsy with drag+drop haha. Keyboard shortcuts ftw.

TEXT WRANGLER!!!!

yes yes yes yes yes !! LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.

Oh man, this appears to be almost a one-click solution!

I just tested it on a folder, and it gave me a total-full listing of all subfolders and files!

I'm jumping with crazy joy.

One question about it :

I'd love to know how to tweak listing everything,

for specific folders, to show just all subfolders,

and not their respective files and contents ;

[that list will be unnecessarily massive]

...for instance, if I was just looking to get a list of all my music/audio folders and their subfolders, there is no need for the individual files / tracks.

I don't need a list of all the individual tracks. Just the folders+their many subfolders / ie. albums.

[However, this is absolutely perfect for folders containing things like documents, or folders with lots of sub-folders filled with obscure applications,

where I do need a list of the individual files within all the subfolders.]

....but barring listing only folders and subfolders, this seems almost absolutely perfect !!!

and leaps+bounds ahead of where I was before.

I've been wanting to know how to do this easily for SO long! Wish I'd asked this a couple of years ago!

This helps me not fear the worst case scenario / major-phobia of all my backup disks dying, or being stolen, or my house burning down and years of all my obscure audio applications / documents / music being lost!

I can email this list to myself.

I'm insanely ecstatic about this!

Cheers-a-trillion!

PS. sorry for the Wall Of Text !

Hi Topher.
Thanks a lot!

Sorry I've been slack getting back to say thanks, it's been a busy week.

Is the command you mention for Terminal or Text Wrangler?

I'll try it out tonight on both if I can.

Also, kind of a small nothing-problem, but I no longer seem to be able to select a location in finder and copy past the full location/path in text wrangler; it just says, for example "desktop" or the name of the folder, without the full path.

No idea why that is. Tiny problem, but would love to know.

I'm a keyboard shortcut person, not a drag-and-dropper.

Cheers. (:

Hey Courcoul. As per your awesome suggestions, I'm committing myself to slowly learning more about finder over coming weeks/months, and it's commands [or especially this one], rather than stoopidly relying on gui things. It'll be easy enough, I just have to learn a bunch of abbreviations and what they mean to navigate.

I tried your initial command [where I assume ls means "list structure" or something]

User's-MacBook-Pro:~ User$ /Users/[Username]/Music ls -R

What I get is this :

okay, I may be getting somewhere :
I first had to use the "cd" [change directory] command,

then dragged the music directory to terminal after this, and pressed enter.

As one would expect, this changed the directory in the terminal [feeling a bit sheepish for not understanding that first go]

and then I tried the "ls -R" again

[not sure what "R" [recursive] means yet]

but ;

This has given me a list of all folders and it appears subfolders.

Unfortunately, it has also given me a list of all files contained within each of these / under this tree, which I def. don't need for the music directory.

I think you gave me a command that will list only folders and subfolders, so I will try that next.

Sorry, I'm a bit slow and stupid, but I think it's coming along. (:

After changing the base directory in terminal from the home folder, to say, for example, the music folder by typing

cd /Users/[username]/Music

then pushing enter

I'd then LOVE to know the exact commands to just list folders and all their subfolders without showing files.

I think you told me above, and I looked through the article, but I still can't seem to get it.

Sorry to bother, I'll be doing a lot more of my own research, but I'd love to know how to do this fast for peace of mind.