Question

How to list all files (order by name) in a Linux directory/subdir, and then export result to a txt file?
Help me please!!! Thanks

Answer 1

I’d use find as below

find /path/to/dir -type f -printf '%p\n' > /path/to/file

every regular file in /path/to/dir will have it’s absolute path printed out and uses bash redirection to /path/to/file

To have them sorted you would need to pipe through sort.

find /path/to/dir -type f -printf '%p\n' | sort > /path/to/file

this will sort by full path to sort by basename

find /path/to/dir -type f -printf '%f::%p\n' | sort | awk -F'::' '{ $1=""; print }' > /path/to/file

this will print the basename of the file first, sort on that then awk removes the initial filename and redirects just the absolute path into the file.