Directory printing tool?

Question

I have a very complex web app project I want to re-structure. Naturally, it consists of a considerable number of folders and sub-folders. I have a huge piece of paper ready to sketch a new structure on.

Now, I need paper printouts of the projects. Some directories I need in full detail including their files - the /library directory for example that contains core parts of the engine. Other directories, I need in much less detail, with just the sub-directories, or not even that.

I am on Windows and can use the tree command but that only gives me a full listing of the whole structure I then have to clean up by hand. I would much rather have a tool which I tell which directories I need in which depth, and in which I can save those settings.

Does anybody happen to know such a tool?

Edit: I have kind of sorted it out using the tree command, deleting the entries manually. To get what I wanted I would probably have to write a script of my own, which I can't do right now. Any hints are still welcome.

Answer 1

Are you wanting a batch file/folder renamer? Or something that lets you export the tree to a CSV or XML, or do you want to just see the files you want in the tree?

I used to use a program called FileMonkey, but it hasn't been updated since 2005. A quick search for the latest and greatest batch file handler turned up a few, the one I liked is Flex Renamer.

Answer 2

I would use a bit of Powershell code for this Take a look at this example and look at the help page for getChilItems (gci). You can specify files to include and files not to include.

$DllFiles = gci "C:\Windows\System32" -recurse | ? {$_.extension -eq ".exe"} Foreach ($Dll in $DllFiles) { $Dll.name + "t " + $DLL.CreationTime + "t " + $Dll.Length $i++ } Write-Host The total number of files is: $i

Here is an example of the exclude parameter Get-ChildItem c:\scripts*.* -exclude .txt,.log there is also an include parameter is that fits your needs better.

Answer 3

Apoligies if you've already tried this - I have no idea of your level of Linux knowledge.

Sounds like you may want to use find. It can find everything under a certain path with

find /path/to/directory/

or it can find just directories with

find /path/to/directory/ -type d

Using either approach, you can redirect the output to a file

find /path/to/directory/ -type d >> output.txt

find /path/to/somewhere/else/ >> output.txt

and then edit the file as you see fit.

Hope that is helpful.

-Jim