[members at lugog] Printing a Folder's Contents

[David Bourne]

Hello again Ian,

I have just finished a Skype session with my son Steven who lives in the 
Alsace region of France, where he does a lot of Ubuntu and Linux 
"Missionary Work" - today he satisfied a neighbouring Frenchman by 
loading Puppy Linux and 14.04 into a new 'empty' laptop. The fellow's 
previous BILLG'ES machine was totally rubbish, and had become useless 
and extremely slow for his photographic work, beside having limited 
memory [?RAM?].

As I am not particularly good at the sort of 'stuff' in your reply, I 
talked through your answer below, and he suggested that taking a 
Screenshot may be a possible quick method of obtaining the page to 
print. He talked me through the process and it worked. Something new for 
this old 'un to remember.

Nevertheless, I am very appreciative of your help, and I have archived 
the details.

Best regards,

David.


On 29/09/15 10:22, David Bourne wrote:
> Thanks Ian,
>
> I will give it a go later, as I am involved with helping to arrange 
> tomorrow's visit to Oswestry of a veteran car called a 1904 Georges 
> Richard Dogcart. Find it on Google, and there is an article under the 
> heading "How the King's first motor found a home in Oswestry", in the 
> 25th August copy of Border Counties Advertiser.
> I am looking forward to being a passenger!!!
>
> Best regards,
>
> David.
>
> On 29/09/15 10:07, Ian Dickinson wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> When I open a Family History Folder Icon which I have on my monitor, it
>>> shows another Folder Icon, inside which I have 80 Census 
>>> Transcriptions and
>>> 'Originals' files, each shown as a File Icon . I am able to show 
>>> these files
>>> as a 'List', and I have been trying to find the 'correct' click to 
>>> be able
>>> to print this list, but as yet I haven't done so.
>> I'm afraid I don't use Mint, so I can't advise on how to do what you
>> want via a menu in the user interface. The good news, however, is that
>> you can do what you want easily from the command line.
>>
>> Bring up a terminal window, change (i.e. cd) to the directory you want
>> to print a listing of, and type:
>>
>> ls | lpr
>>
>> If you're not familiar with the command line, this deconstructs as:
>>
>> * 'ls' is the 'list the contents of this directory' command. Type just
>> ls on its own to see the files listed in the terminal. You can
>> additional arguments to modify the listing: 'ls -l' shows the long
>> form listing including sizes and permissions, 'ls -sh' lists the files
>> with sizes in "human-readable form (4.0K, 1.2M, etc). Type 'man ls' to
>> see a full list of the options
>>
>> * 'lpr' is the command to send a file to the default printer.
>>
>> * '|' (pronounced 'pipe') is the vertical bar character
>> (shift-backslash on most UK keyboards), which pipes the output of one
>> command to the input of the next. So you're piping the output of the
>> directory listing to the input of the 'print this file' command, thus
>> printing the listing that you want.
>>
>> There are other variants to this pattern. If you want to edit the list
>> of files before you print them, you could
>>
>> ls > my-files.txt
>> gedit my-files.txt
>>
>> which will save the output of the ls command to a new file named
>> 'my-files.txt', and then open that file up in a graphical editor, from
>> which you can edit the listing and then print the file. I'm guessing
>> that you have gedit installed on your system, you may need to pick a
>> different text editor program but the principle is the same
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Ian
>>
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