10.4: Create an index of backup disks' filenames

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Tue, Oct 24 2006 at 7:30AM PDT • Contributed by: enderai

I've found this quick tip to be useful when creating backup optical discs, or moving data for projects off of my hard drive: Save a text file containing the paths of all the files on the disk with the name of the disc. This is easily done using the find command from the command line.

For example, with a disk named backup-cd-2006-10-19, the Terminal command would look like this:

$ cd /Volumes/backup-cd-2006-10-19/
$ find . > ~/Documents/Backup-Indexes/backup-cd-2006-10-19.txt

Now, any time you do a Spotlight search for the name of a file that happens to be on the disc, your backup index file appears in the results, letting you know to look there, also.

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10.4: Create an index of backup disks' filenames
Authored by: ofermod on Tue, Oct 24 2006 at 7:56AM PDT

Using find . -ls gives you the traditional 'long' listing including permissions, filenames, mdate, etc. along with the full path to the filename. Adding a little awk, you can also modify what columns you want to see.

"tree" gives much nicer output.
Authored by: lionel77 on Tue, Oct 24 2006 at 12:36PM PDT

I use the command line tool "tree" for this purpose. It produces very nicely formatted output and it is highly customizable.

You can get it through DarwinPorts or fink.

10.4: Create an index of backup disks' filenames
Authored by: rafa espada on Tue, Oct 24 2006 at 8:49PM PDT

Is a really cool tip :-D Several weeks tind a free catalog metode!!! I do this applescript to do this

on open x
	repeat with artxibo in x
		set thisInfo to info for artxibo		
		set command to " find /Volumes/" & name of thisInfo & "/ > ~/Documents/CDskatalogs/" & name of thisInfo & ".txt"
	end repeat
	my aldatu(command)
end open

on aldatu(kat)
	tell application "Terminal"
		activate
		do script kata
		quit
	end tell
end aldatu

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rafa espada

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10.4: Create an index of backup disks' filenames
Authored by: rafa espada on Tue, Oct 24 2006 at 11:16PM PDT

Sorry... this part was wrong :-(


on aldatu(kata)
	tell application "Terminal"
		activate
		do script kata
		quit
	end tell
end aldatu

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rafa espada
rafa@espada.info
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What does this script do exactly?
Authored by: alexmathew on Wed, Oct 25 2006 at 10:20AM PDT

For some of us that dont use Applescript too often - pray tell us how this script is supposed to work ? Are all the lines in one script?
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