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I have a directory with millions of files. I've just learned millions are orphaned and I need to unlink them. I'd like to start with an array of all files in a single text file (csv ideally). Can you help?

I was going to do an ls and just save the terminal output to a file, but I figure there's a more elegant way.

How can I make something like ls > log.csv end up looking like

file1.txt,file2.txt, ... fileN.txt?

Mike Lyons
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Ryan
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  • This one looks similar: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2764051/joining-multiple-lines-into-one-with-bash – procleaf Nov 15 '12 at 11:57
  • @leafei, wow. That's awesome. Trying this now: `ls -1 | tr "\\n" "," > log.csv` – Ryan Nov 15 '12 at 12:42

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Try doing this :

printf '%s\n' *.txt | paste -sd "," - > log.csv

or

printf '%s,' *.txt > log.csv

or 

printf '"%s",' *.txt > log.csv

if you have special characters like spaces in filenames.

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