How to get full path of a file?

Question

Is there an easy way I can print the full path of file.txt ?

file.txt = /nfs/an/disks/jj/home/dir/file.txt

The

Answer 1

You may use this function. If the file name is given without relative path, then it is assumed to be present in the current working directory:

abspath() { old=`pwd`;new=$(dirname "$1");if [ "$new" != "." ]; then cd $new; fi;file=`pwd`/$(basename "$1");cd $old;echo $file; }

Usage:

$ abspath file.txt
/I/am/in/present/dir/file.txt

Usage with relative path:

$ abspath ../../some/dir/some-file.txt
/I/am/in/some/dir/some-file.txt

With spaces in file name:

$ abspath "../../some/dir/another file.txt"
/I/am/in/some/dir/another file.txt

Answer 2

For Mac OS, if you just want to get the path of a file in the finder, control click the file, and scroll down to "Services" at the bottom. You get many choices, including "copy path" and "copy full path". Clicking on one of these puts the path on the clipboard.

Answer 3

In Mac OSX, do the following steps:

1. cd into the directory of the target file.
2. Type either of the following terminal commands.

Terminal

ls "`pwd`/file.txt"
echo $(pwd)/file.txt

3. Replace file.txt with your actual file name.
4. Press Enter

Answer 4

Usually:

find `pwd` | grep <filename>

Alternatively, just for the current folder:

find `pwd` -maxdepth 1 | grep <filename>

Answer 5

the easiest way I found is

for i in `ls`; do echo "`pwd`/$i"; done

it works well for me

Answer 6

Works on Mac, Linux, *nix:

This will give you a quoted csv of all files in the current dir:

ls | xargs -I {} echo "$(pwd -P)/{}" | xargs | sed 's/ /","/g'

The output of this can be easily copied into a python list or any similar data structure.