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<font size="+1">That's what I like about Linux, there are always
folk willing to help. I'm still learning the basics :) Hi to all
glasto peeps.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/09/15 10:22, David Bourne wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:560A5854.6060309@gmail.com" type="cite">Thanks
Ian,
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
I am looking forward to being a passenger!!!
<br>
<br>
Best regards,
<br>
<br>
David.
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On 29/09/15 10:07, Ian Dickinson wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi David,
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">When I open a Family History Folder Icon
which I have on my monitor, it
<br>
shows another Folder Icon, inside which I have 80 Census
Transcriptions and
<br>
'Originals' files, each shown as a File Icon . I am able to
show these files
<br>
as a 'List', and I have been trying to find the 'correct'
click to be able
<br>
to print this list, but as yet I haven't done so.
<br>
</blockquote>
I'm afraid I don't use Mint, so I can't advise on how to do what
you
<br>
want via a menu in the user interface. The good news, however,
is that
<br>
you can do what you want easily from the command line.
<br>
<br>
Bring up a terminal window, change (i.e. cd) to the directory
you want
<br>
to print a listing of, and type:
<br>
<br>
ls | lpr
<br>
<br>
If you're not familiar with the command line, this deconstructs
as:
<br>
<br>
* 'ls' is the 'list the contents of this directory' command.
Type just
<br>
ls on its own to see the files listed in the terminal. You can
<br>
additional arguments to modify the listing: 'ls -l' shows the
long
<br>
form listing including sizes and permissions, 'ls -sh' lists the
files
<br>
with sizes in "human-readable form (4.0K, 1.2M, etc). Type 'man
ls' to
<br>
see a full list of the options
<br>
<br>
* 'lpr' is the command to send a file to the default printer.
<br>
<br>
* '|' (pronounced 'pipe') is the vertical bar character
<br>
(shift-backslash on most UK keyboards), which pipes the output
of one
<br>
command to the input of the next. So you're piping the output of
the
<br>
directory listing to the input of the 'print this file' command,
thus
<br>
printing the listing that you want.
<br>
<br>
There are other variants to this pattern. If you want to edit
the list
<br>
of files before you print them, you could
<br>
<br>
ls > my-files.txt
<br>
gedit my-files.txt
<br>
<br>
which will save the output of the ls command to a new file named
<br>
'my-files.txt', and then open that file up in a graphical
editor, from
<br>
which you can edit the listing and then print the file. I'm
guessing
<br>
that you have gedit installed on your system, you may need to
pick a
<br>
different text editor program but the principle is the same
<br>
<br>
Hope that helps,
<br>
Ian
<br>
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