[taldrich]

I have just sent a CD of data to someone that contains many folders and sub-folders. I also allow remote users to view this data remotely as a Workgroup on our server. I am continuously updating and adding to this data.

Is there any software utility that can create a Table of Contents, so that a user can see in one glance what is there, without having to dig around?

Thanks

[Hal Itosis]

Get TextWrangler (or BBEdit Lite) and drag the folder (or disk) into an empty text window.
[might need to edit out hidden files & folders that aren't intended for user consumption.]

[mduell]

ls will do what you want.

[Hal Itosis]

Originally Posted by mduell 

ls will do what you want.

So will mtree

But neither will be as easy to read (i.e., *look* like a TOC) as much as
the results from those BareBones apps (which indent folder sublevels).

[actually, mtree -i does indent... but it's not as pretty.]

[taldrich]

Thanks - I ended up with TextWrangler which did the job fine. The result has a fairly industrial look to it, but it does the job.

[Hal Itosis]

I got interested enough in having something like this easily available in Terminal
that I whipped up a small shell script to filter out some of the heavy-duty extras
in mtree's (power-packed) output. Applying a few filters with sed and awk have
made it fairly usable. (save as a file, do chmod a+x, and customize to your taste):


#!/bin/bash
IFS=$' \t\n'
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH
folder=${1:-${PWD}}; [[ -d $folder ]] || exit 1
/usr/sbin/mtree -nice -k '' -p "$folder" |
sed 's:^/set::;s: *type=[^ ]*::g;s:\\040: :g;s:^ *..$::' |
awk 'NF != 0 { print }' |awk '$0 !~ /.DS_Store/ { print }'
exit $?



Example (as run on Leopard) with script named "ltr":

Code:
ltr /Library/Perl
.
    5.8.8
        AppendToPath   
        darwin-thread-multi-2level \
            SNMP.pm        
            Bundle
                Makefile.subs.pl
            NetSNMP
                ASN.pm         
                OID.pm         
                TrapReceiver.pm
                agent.pm       
                default_store.pm
                agent
                    Support.pm     
                    default_store.pm
                    netsnmp_request_infoPtr.pm
            auto
                Bundle
                    NetSNMP
                        .packlist      
                NetSNMP
                    ASN
                        ASN.bs         
                        ASN.bundle     
                        autosplit.ix   
                    OID
                        OID.bs         
                        OID.bundle     
                        autosplit.ix   
                    TrapReceiver
                        TrapReceiver.bs
                        TrapReceiver.bundle
                        autosplit.ix   
                    agent
                        agent.bs       
                        agent.bundle   
                        autosplit.ix   
                        default_store
                            autosplit.ix   
                            default_store.bs
                            default_store.bundle
                    default_store
                        autosplit.ix   
                        default_store.bs
                        default_store.bundle
                SNMP
                    SNMP.bs        
                    SNMP.bundle    
                    autosplit.ix

Still has some junk in the output (mostly trailing spaces).

[Hal Itosis]

Originally Posted by Hal Itosis 

sed 's:^/set::;s: *type=[^ ]*::g;s:\\040: :g;s:^ *..$::' |

Slight error in line 7 there. Technically, it should be:

sed 's:^/set::;s: *type=[^ ]*::g;s:\\040: :g;s:^ *\.\.$::' |

(it worked as written nonetheless, due to the way mtree adds trailing spaces to certain items).

Heck with it, here's a version that strips the trailing spaces (and might be easier to read):

Code:
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$' \t\n'
PATH=/usr/bin
export PATH

folder=${1:-${PWD}}; [[ -d $folder ]] || exit 1

/usr/sbin/mtree -nice -k '' -p "$folder" |
sed 's:^/set::
     s: *type=[^ ]*::
     s:^ *\.\.$::
     s: *$::
     s:\\040: :g
     /^$/d
     /.DS_Store/d'

exit $?