How can I generate a list of files with their absolute path in Linux?

Question

I am writing a shell script that takes file paths as input.

For this reason, I need to generate recursive file listings with full paths. For example, the file

Answer 1

stat

Absolute path of a single file:

stat -c %n "$PWD"/foo/bar

Answer 2

If you give the find command an absolute path, it will spit the results out with an absolute path. So, from the Ken directory if you were to type:

find /home/ken/foo/ -name bar -print    

(instead of the relative path find . -name bar -print)

You should get:

/home/ken/foo/bar

Therefore, if you want an ls -l and have it return the absolute path, you can just tell the find command to execute an ls -l on whatever it finds.

find /home/ken/foo -name bar -exec ls -l {} ;\ 

NOTE: There is a space between {} and ;

You'll get something like this:

-rw-r--r--   1 ken admin       181 Jan 27 15:49 /home/ken/foo/bar

If you aren't sure where the file is, you can always change the search location. As long as the search path starts with "/", you will get an absolute path in return. If you are searching a location (like /) where you are going to get a lot of permission denied errors, then I would recommend redirecting standard error so you can actually see the find results:

find / -name bar -exec ls -l {} ;\ 2> /dev/null

(2> is the syntax for the Borne and Bash shells, but will not work with the C shell. It may work in other shells too, but I only know for sure that it works in Bourne and Bash).

Answer 3

lspwd() { for i in $@; do ls -d -1 $PWD/$i; done }

Answer 4

This worked for me. But it didn't list in alphabetical order.

find "$(pwd)" -maxdepth 1

This command lists alphabetically as well as lists hidden files too.

ls -d -1 "$PWD/".*; ls -d -1 "$PWD/"*;

Answer 5

Recursive files can be listed by many ways in linus. Here i am sharing one liner script to clear all logs of files(only files) from /var/log/ directory and second check recently which logs file has made an entry.

First:-

find /var/log/ -type f  #listing file recursively 

Second:-

for i in $(find $PWD -type f) ; do cat /dev/null > "$i" ; done #empty files recursively 

Third use:-

ls -ltr $(find /var/log/ -type f ) # listing file used in recent

note: for directory location you can also pass $PWD instead of /var/log.

Answer 6

find / -print will do this