command line - print names of files in folder from path in terminal

I was making a program and want to see all the items in a folder by giving it the path. my program uses the terminal so the commands are the same.

something along the lines of

echo "/Users/Danny/Desktop/saves"

save1.txt
save2.txt
save3.txt

that doesn't work that way but is there a way of doing that?

Answer

echo isn't the right command and I don't think you have the file path quite right. You'll need to specify an absolute or a relative path and it looks like you aren't doing either. A tilde (~) should suffice (e.g. ~/Users/Danny...) for a relative path.

I think the command you're looking for is "ls" (that's an L in lowercase and not a 1 just for clarification).

• ls "/Users/Danny/Desktop/saves" will list the visible contents of the folder.


• ls -al "/Users/Danny/Desktop/saves" will list everything (including any hidden content).


• ls -R "/Users/Danny/Desktop/saves" will list files in subdirectories.