# read filenames and return a .txt (do locally instead of on colab)
import os

# Replace 'your_folder_path_here' with the path to your directory
folder_path = 'combined'
file_names = []

# List all files in the directory and append them to the file_names list
for filename in os.listdir(folder_path):
    if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(folder_path, filename)):
        file_names.append(filename)

# Specify the name of the text file where the filenames will be written
output_file_path = 'file_names.txt'

# Write the filenames to the specified text file
with open(output_file_path, 'w') as file:
    for name in file_names:
        file.write(f"{name}\n")

print(f"Filenames written to {output_file_path}")