what's a unix command which will output a list of files in a folder to a text file?

Question

i'm on a mac with OSX 10.5

i'm using tcsh but i could use bash if it'd help

Answer 1

Try

ls -1 /directory/you/want/to/list > ~/Desktop/filelist.txt

which will redirect the output of ls -1 (or ls -l or whatever you want) to the file ~/Desktop/filelist.txt. Using > for redirecting outpiut works for every command, btw. Just google about "input output redirection" (or see this link).

Answer 2

ls "path/to/folder/" > file.txt