Hello, El 3 de enero de 2016 17:49:38 CET, ray <r...@aarden.us> escribió: >I would like to better manage my files to manage duplications and >versions. > >On Windows, I use a VBA module in Excel; execute in a specific >directory and it records all files along with the path, size, type, >dates. On Debian 8.2, an ls -al -R gives the data but the output >prints a directory and all the files under that directory. Capturing >this as text list all the files but the path is not recorded from each >file. With so many directories, it is not reasonable to edit this by >hand.
See find command and its -printf format options > >So I am wondering what would be some good methods for recording my file >system data so it may be used programmatically. I like doing this is a >spreadsheet as I can sort and filter, drag and copy, drag and iterate, >and programmatically build large scripts. I dont understand what does "drag and copy, drag and iterate, >and programmatically build large scripts" means. For see how your space is distributed, use baobab Regards