Using 'ls' to get a directory listing of a flash drive

After tracking down information on how to identify a 'flash drive' to OS X (in Terminal), I used the ls command to get a list of the contents of the flash drive (redirected to a file).
Since then, however, I haven't been able to locate the file in the Finder, nor does Spotlight find it.
Curiously, it does list in Terminal.
Is /Volumes (the working directory) a 'hidden' directory that has to be 'unhidden' to be seen by the Finder?
If not, why can't I locate the file that contains the list of files on the flash drive?
Thanks.

Will Go To Folder locate any folder anywhere on the computer (without having to include any 'path' information) -- i.e., just by entering the folder's name?
No, Go To Folder has no search capability at all. You have to know the path.
From my reading, it is a very old and peculiar hybrid function, going back at least to Jaguar, that uses Unix path notations and displays the result in a Finder window.
So since ~ is Unix shorthand for "home folder", and your personal trash there is in an invisible folder named .Trash, you can see you own trash via
Finder>Go> Go to Folder
enter ~/.Trash
and click Go
You can't look into another user's trash this way. Go to Folder respects permissions, and you can't go to a folder that is forbidden to you.

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Re: External procedure calls supported?
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Kind Regards,
James
Got the link to the 'External procedure calls support' wrong.
Message was edited by: jcrockart

Ok.
Well here is the solution... Can I make it better?
FROM OS (oracle user):
vi ~/get_dir.sh
#!/bin/sh
ls $1 > /tmp/$2
exit 0
##end
FROM SYS:
create directory OS_TMP as '/tmp';
grant read,write on directory OS_TMP to hr;
grant create table to hr;
FROM HR:
create global temporary table DIR_LIST
( filename varchar2(255) )
on commit delete rows
--create the following:
CREATE OR REPLACE procedure get_dir_list (
p_directory     in varchar2
IS
l_jobname VARCHAR2 (100);
BEGIN
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          file_name               varchar2(1000)
          organization external (
          type          oracle_loader
          default     directory os_tmp
          access parameters (
               records delimited by newline
               fields terminated by '',''
               missing field values are null
               file_name)
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GET_DIR_LIST14
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
hr>select * from dir_list;
FILENAME
apex
apex_3.0.1.zip
get_dir.sh
go.log
go.txt
test.sh
6 rows selected.
hr>
Apologies for butchering Dietmar Aust dbms_schedule example.
I can't drop the external table as the data in the global temporary table will be lost, so I will have to periodically clean up after this procedure.
Please somebody feel free to give me the one line solution ;-)
Regards,
James

Urgent: Want to get the directory listing

Hi,
My iAS and iWS reside on separate unix machines.
My pdf files being a static content reside on iWS.
My application which is deployed on iAS, wants to
know the names of the pdf files residing on iWS.
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for an application deployed on iAS to get the directory
listing of files residing on a separate machine.
Is there any API which will be of help ?.
I guess there must be some APIs associated with the
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Amar.

<i>Can anyone tell me, as to whether there is any way
for an application deployed on iAS to get the directory
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Get directory listing or files contained in a folder which is placed on a s

Hello,
I want to get the directory listing of a particular folder say 'xyz' which is placed on the server.
I am using tomcat. I want to use Http to do it. How do it do it.
Please guide.
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JAVA_student ,
as pointed out file list is (in productional environments) usually turned off for security reasons.
But I had a similiar requirement to the one you posted. I had a directory with thousands of image files with the name pattern <id>.jpg and the id's stored in a database. Not for every id in the database there existed a file. I wanted to show an image or in case the image file did not exist a default jpg. I could not set the error pages in web.xml to do it.
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%>
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<%
%>
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â
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Hmm
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I have a ACE 4710 setup in a test environment(and context) with 2 filezilla FTP servers on the back end and a Win7 laptop on the front end with a FTP client(s). The ACE is setup to load balance by source(the requirement for our project).
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