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

The $PWD is a good option by Matthew above. If you want find to only print files then you can also add the -type f option to search only normal files. Other options are "d" for directories only etc. So in your case it would be (if i want to search only for files with .c ext):

find $PWD -type f -name "*.c" 

or if you want all files:

find $PWD -type f

Note: You can't make an alias for the above command, because $PWD gets auto-completed to your home directory when the alias is being set by bash.

Answer 2

You might want to try this.

for name in /home/ken/foo/bar/*
do
    echo $name
done

You can get abs path using for loop and echo simply without find.

Answer 3

If you need list of all files in current as well as sub-directories

find $PWD -type f

If you need list of all files only in current directory

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -type f