List of All Folders and Sub-folders

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Sandeep540 picture Sandeep540 · Feb 12, 2013 · Viewed 133.7k times · Source

In Linux, I want to find out all Folder/Sub-folder name and redirect to text file

I tried ls -alR > list.txt, but it gives all files+folders

Answer

Adem Öztaş picture Adem Öztaş · Feb 12, 2013

You can use find

find . -type d > output.txt

or tree

tree -d > output.txt

tree, If not installed on your system.

If you are using ubuntu

sudo apt-get install tree

If you are using mac os.

brew install tree

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