Script for a list?

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Hello Gentleman - I'm hoping you can help since I can't find an answer to this anywhere in Synology or on the web from what I can see. I'm in the process of considating my medical files movies, tv shows etc. from iTunes and other sources into synology. Is there any script I can run that will give me just a simple list of names/titlas of the files I have in a folder so that I can ultimately take that list and enter it into a look up table so I can compare what I have and have moved?

I hope this is clear with what I'masking here but I haven't been able to find a thing to be able to get this out of my 920+ but it seems like something that should be easy to do?

Thank you for the time on this!

Rob

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Thanks for your message — and yes, what you’re after is totally doable with a quick script. If you’re looking to generate a simple list of filenames (just titles, not metadata) from a specific folder on your Synology NAS, here’s a straightforward way to do it using SSH.

Step-by-Step: Generate File List from a Folder
1. Enable SSH on your Synology NAS
Go to Control Panel > Terminal & SNMP, enable SSH, and click Apply.
2. Connect via SSH
From a terminal on your Mac or PC:

ssh adminusername@NAS_IP_ADDRESS
(Replace adminusername and NAS_IP_ADDRESS with your own values.)

3. Navigate to the folder where your files are stored
For example:

cd /volume1/video/movies


4. Run the following command to list all filenames
This will output all files (and folders) in that directory and save them into a text file:



ls -1 > filelist.txt



Or for recursive listing of all files in subfolders:



find . -type f > full_file_list.txt


5. Retrieve the list
You can use File Station or SCP to grab the filelist.txt or full_file_list.txt file back to your computer for use in Excel, lookup tables, or other applications.