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I'm fairly new to Linux (CentOS in this case). I have a folder with about 2000 files in it. I'd like to ideally execute a command at the command prompt that would write out the name of all the files into a single txt file.
If I have to, I could write an actual program to do it too, I was just thinking there might be a way to simply do it from the command prompt.
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Right-click that folder and select Show more options. Click Copy File List to Clipboard on the classic menu. You'll still need to paste the copied list into a text file.
The easiest way to list files by name is simply to list them using the ls command. Listing files by name (alphanumeric order) is, after all, the default. You can choose the ls (no details) or ls -l (lots of details) to determine your view.
you can just use
ls > filenames.txt (usually, start a shell by using "Terminal", or "shell", or "Bash".) You may need to use cd to go to that folder first, or you can ls ~/docs > filenames.txt
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