Article on how to copy a list of files in a folder and paste the list into an open document. The operation is performed only with resources internal to the tested operating systems, which are MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu) and macOS, although in the last one, only in command-line mode.

• 1. Topic of this article.
• 2. Command line solution in MS Windows.
• 3. Command-line solution in GNU/Linux and macOS.
• 4. Graphical solution in Windows with File Explorer.
• 5. Graphical solution in Linux with File Manager.

1. Topic of this article.

Have you ever had a folder on your computer full of files and need to insert the list of those files in a page you are editing?