[Andrew Sin]

I'm not sure if this is even possible...
I work for a design/printing company with a large amount of archived files. We want to take the file names of our archived jobs and make them into a text file so we can have an editable list. Is there an easier way to do this besides copying and pasting each individual file name? We are using OS X 10.2.6

Thanks for any help

-A-

[Developer]

Copy this into Scripteditor:

Code:
on open these_items
	set the_names_list to ""
	
	repeat with i from 1 to count of these_items
		set this_item to item i of these_items
		tell application "Finder" to set the_filename to the name of this_item
		set the_names_list to the_names_list & the_filename & "\n"
	end repeat
	
	set the clipboard to the_names_list
	
	say "The list of filenames is now on the clipboard."
end open

Save it as program and drop the files onto it.

[ppmax]

Or do a "man find" or "man locate" in the Terminal.

You could do something like:

find /path/to/the/archive/* -type f -name '*.[jJ][pP][gG]' > /path/to/output/text/file/output.txt

This would look in a particular folder and find all the jpg files and write all the names into the output.txt file

[Andrew Sin]

Originally posted by Developer:
Copy this into Scripteditor:

Code:
on open these_items
	set the_names_list to ""
	
	repeat with i from 1 to count of these_items
		set this_item to item i of these_items
		tell application "Finder" to set the_filename to the name of this_item
		set the_names_list to the_names_list & the_filename & "\n"
	end repeat
	
	set the clipboard to the_names_list
	
	say "The list of filenames is now on the clipboard."
end open

Save it as program and drop the files onto it.

Awesome!

Thank you so much Developer. That did exactly what we needed. Thank you also, ppmax. I didn't get a chance to use your method since Developer's worked and we are really busy here, but I really appreciate your reply.

Thanks again.

-A-

[Scarpa]

The battle of the scripting languages is cool and all, but this functionality is built into Finder!

1. Select the files
2. Press Command-C
3. Paste into editor of choice

[Developer]

I feel so ashamed.

[:XI:]

Originally posted by Scarpa:
The battle of the scripting languages is cool and all, but this functionality is built into Finder!

1. Select the files
2. Press Command-C
3. Paste into editor of choice

But, that's what I was going to post!

haha!

[Hop Pocket]

Wow. I have learned a lot in this thread. Thanks to all!

[Jim_MDP]

Yes, and if you want all the nested files listed as well� drag the folder to a new window in BBEdit, or possibly any other HTML style editor.

So there.

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by Scarpa:
The battle of the scripting languages is cool and all, but this functionality is built into Finder!

1. Select the files
2. Press Command-C
3. Paste into editor of choice

Indeed. Been around since OS9.

In OSX, it pastes the filenames if it is not appropriate to paste the FILES themselves (ie, if you're pasting in the Finder, it'll use the files; otherwise, just their names).

You could also just:

ls > files.txt

or whatever.

[Scarpa]

Originally posted by Developer:
I feel so ashamed.

Don't be, I liked your script. It was interesting to see the difference between Apple tools and UNIX tools. Makes ya wonder how OSX ever happened!