Home Computer Audio Asylum

Music servers and other computer based digital audio technologies.

RE: Help, what a mess!

My wife had a similar issue with multiple USB drives for her video projects when she wanted to find out what was on all the drives and consolidate all the files to a much larger NAS drive.

It's easy in Linux or any UNIX like shell:

du -ah /dir > drive_name.txt

That gives you a file with a list of all the files in that directory tree in alphabetical order that you can then print in notepad or whatever.

If you['re using a Mac, you can do this command by clicking on the Terminal program.

For Windows, you would need to download and install cygwin which is free. From there, open the cygwin Terminal from the start under programs.

du -h gives you your drives on the system.

cd D: moves to the D drive

ls gives you the directory list

For a dir with spaces, use cd 'Recorded TV' with single quotes.

Once you get to your music dir, then du -ah. To save that to a file, du -ah > file.txt




-Rod


This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  Atma-Sphere Music Systems, Inc.  


Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
  • RE: Help, what a mess! - Rod M 10/3/2018:26:14 10/3/20 (1)

FAQ

Post a Message!

Forgot Password?
Moniker (Username):
Password (Optional):
  Remember my Moniker & Password  (What's this?)    Eat Me
E-Mail (Optional):
Subject:
Message:   (Posts are subject to Content Rules)
Optional Link URL:
Optional Link Title:
Optional Image URL:
Upload Image:
E-mail Replies:  Automagically notify you when someone responds.