[members at lugog] Printing a Folder's Contents

[David Bourne]

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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