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Extracting List of Games

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Anybody have suggestions on what the best route to go for on extracting a list of every game you have loaded on your RetroPie?

On to an excel spreadsheet for example?
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Do you only need the name, or do you want to get all other Metadata as well?
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@Zigurana just the name will do.
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```
cd /path/to/games 
ls >gamelist.txt
```
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