Re: Grabbing a catalog of a Finder window or folder's (nested) contents?

In article <Bux%i.5157$Ji6.3317@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Király)
wrote:

> ls -R /path/to/folder > ~/Desktop/list.txt 

I thought I'd put this in an Applescript droplet for convenience. Works
fine as 
a shell script, but I wanted to add the folder's name to "List.txt" and
can't 
get that to work:

on open theDrop
   if (count theDrop) > 1 then
      display dialog "Please drop only one folder at a time on me." with
title 
"Folder List" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution
      return
   end if
   
   set theFolder to item 1 of theDrop
   
   set folderInfo to (info for theFolder)
   
   if not folder of folderInfo then
      display dialog "Please drop only a folder on me." with title "Folder
List" 
buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution
      return
   end if
   
   set folderName to name of folderInfo
   set theFolder to POSIX path of theFolder

   --set scriptCommand to "ls -R " & theFolder & ("> ~/Desktop/" &
folderName & 
" List.txt") 

--> Error "ls: List.txt: No such file or directory"
   
   set scriptCommand to "ls -R " & theFolder & ("> ~/Desktop/List.txt")

--> works

   do shell script scriptCommand
end open

-- 
John Rethorst
jrethorst at post dot com