Greetings Linux Gurus:

I need to create a text (.txt) file of all the filenames within a
certain directory.  The problem is that this directory has close to
100,000 files in it.

When I try:  ls *.* > filename.txt

I get the error message "Argument List Too Long," resulting from the
huge number of files in this directory.

I am running the latest version of Debian.

Is there a "non-radical" solution to my problem?

Would appreciate any advice, or better yet, the actual command to do
this (if it can be done).

did you try just "ls > filename.txt"?

ls with no arguments should list all the files in the directory,
presuming you didn't only want ones with dots in their names.

Yes, that worked just fine.  The *.* was to indicate all files.  Thanks very much.