How to get full path of a file

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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  lt command gt    dir gt   lt command gt  file txt     should print   nfs an disks jj home dir file txt

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You can save this in your shell rc or just put in console   function absolute path   echo   PWD  1     alias ap  absolute path    example    ap somefile txt   will output   home user somefile txt

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On Windows    Holding Shift and right clicking on a file in Windows Explorer gives you an option called Copy as Path  This will copy the full path of the file to clipboard     On Linux    You can use the command realpath yourfile to get the full path of a file as suggested by others

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find  PWD -type f   grep  filename    or  find  PWD -type f -name   filename

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In Mac OSX  do the following steps    cd into the directory of the target file  Type either of the following terminal commands    Terminal  ls   pwd  file txt  echo   pwd  file txt    Replace file txt with your actual file name  Press Enter

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Another Linux utility  that does this job   fname  lt file gt

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Use readlink   readlink -f file txt

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echo   cd   dirname   1    amp  amp  pwd -P    basename   1     This is explanation of what is going on at  ZeRemz s answer    This script get relative path as argument   1  Then we get dirname part of that path  you can pass either dir or file to this script   dirname   1  Then we cd    dirname   1   into this relative dir   amp  amp  pwd -P and get absolute path for it  -P option will avoid all symlinks After that we append basename to absolute path    basename   1   As final step we echo it

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the easiest way I found is   for i in  ls   do echo   pwd   i   done   it works well for me

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This will give you absolute path of the file   find   -name file txt

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This works with both Linux and Mac OSX       echo   pwd     ls file txt

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This will work for both file and folder   getAbsolutePath           -d  1     amp  amp    cd   1   echo    pwd -P                cd    dirname   1       exit 1  echo    pwd -P    basename   1

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Beside  readlink -f    another commonly used command     find   the long path but I can use TAB to auto it to  -name myfile  the long path but I can use TAB to auto it to myfile      This also give the full path and file name at console  Off-topic  This method just gives relative links  not absolute  The readlink -f command is the right one

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The following usually does the trick   echo  quot   cd  quot   dirname  quot  1 quot   quot   amp  amp  pwd -P    basename  quot  1 quot   quot

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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

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I like many of the answers already given  but I have found this really useful  especially within a script to get the full path of a file  including following symlinks and relative references such as   and     dirname  readlink -e relative path to file    Which will return the full path of the file from the root path onwards  This can be used in a script so that the script knows which path it is running from  which is useful in a repository clone which could be located anywhere on a machine   basePath  dirname   readlink -e  0      I can then use the   basePath  variable in my scripts to directly reference other scripts   Hope this helps   Dave

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Create a function like the below  echoes the absolute path of a file with pwd and adds the file at the end of the path   abspath     echo   pwd   1     1       Now you can just find any file path   abspath myfile ext

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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

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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

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If you are in the same directory as the file   ls   pwd  file txt    Replace file txt with your target filename

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I know there s an easier way that this  but darned if I can find it     jcomeau intrepid    python -c  import os  print os path abspath  cat wav      home jcomeau cat wav     jcomeau intrepid    ls  PWD cat wav  home jcomeau cat wav

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In mac mentioned below line works  No need to add any fancy lines    gt  pwd filename

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In a similar scenario  I m launching a cshell script from some other location  For setting the correct absolute path of the script so that it runs in the designated directory only  I m using the following code   set script dir    pwd   dirname  0     0 stores the exact string how the script was executed   For e g  if the script was launched like this    gt        test test csh   script dir will contain  home abc sandbox v1       test

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This worked pretty well for me   It doesn t rely on the file system  a pro con depending on need  so it ll be fast  and  it should be portable to most any  NIX   It does assume the passed string is indeed relative to the PWD and not some other directory   function abspath         echo  1   awk            Root parent directory refs to the PWD for replacement below                   sub                        Replace the symbolic PWD refs with the absolute PWD                     sub        ENVIRON  PWD               Print absolute paths                  print

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This is naive  but I had to make it to be POSIX compliant  Requires permission to cd into the file s directory      bin sh if          0    then   echo  Error  0 args  need 1   gt  amp 2   exit 1 fi   if   -d   1     then       Directory     base    cd   1   echo   PWD          dir    cd   1   echo   PWD   base        if     dir         then     parentPath   dir    else     parentPath   dir      fi    if   -z   base         -z   parentPath     then     if   -n   1     then       fullPath    cd   1   echo   PWD        else       echo  Error  unsupported scenario 1   gt  amp 2       exit 1     fi   fi  elif     1         1     then    if   -f     1     then         File in current directory      base    echo   1            parentPath    echo   PWD       else     echo  Error  unsupported scenario 2   gt  amp 2     exit 1   fi elif   -f   1     amp  amp    -d   1        then       File in directory    base    echo   1          parentPath    cd   1      echo   PWD     else   echo  Error  not file or directory   gt  amp 2   exit 1 fi  if     parentPath         then   fullPath   fullPath -  parentPath   base   fi  fullPath   fullPath -  parentPath    base    if     -e   fullPath     then   echo  Error  does not exist   gt  amp 2   exit 1 fi  echo   fullPath

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fp      PHYS DIR  pwd -P  RESULT  PHYS DIR  1 echo  RESULT   pbcopy echo  RESULT     Copies the text to your clipboard and displays the text on the terminal window        I copied some of the code from another stack overflow answer but cannot find that answer anymore

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I suppose you are using Linux   I found a utility called realpath in coreutils 8 15   realpath file txt  data ail data transformed binaries coreutils test folder realpath file txt   As per  styrofoam-fly and  arch-standton comments  realpath alone doesn t check for file existence  to solve this add the e argument  realpath -e file

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Usually   find  pwd    grep  lt filename gt    Alternatively  just for the current folder   find  pwd  -maxdepth 1   grep  lt filename gt

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You could use the fpn  full path name  script     pwd  Users adamatan bins scripts fpn    ls LICENSE   README md fpn py    fpn    Users adamatan bins scripts fpn LICENSE  Users adamatan bins scripts fpn README md  Users adamatan bins scripts fpn fpn py   fpn is not a standard Linux package  but it s a free and open github project and you could set it up in a minute

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find   -samefile file txt -print   Will find all the links to the file with the same inode number as file txt  adding a -xdev flag will avoid find to cross device boundaries   mount points     But this will probably cause nothing to be found if the find does not start at a directory on the same device as file txt   Do note that find can report multiple paths for a single filesystem object  because an Inode can be linked by more than one directory entry  possibly even using different names  For instance   find  bin -samefile  bin gunzip -ls   Will output   12845178    4 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2251 feb  9  2012  bin uncompress 12845178    4 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2251 feb  9  2012  bin gunzip

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To get full path of a file    1  open your terminal in the folder containing your file  by pushing on the keyboard following keys   CTRL   ALT   T  2  then type  pwd   acronym of Print name of Working Directory      your device     pwd   that s all folks

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For Mac OS X  I replaced the utilities that come with the operating system and replaced them with a newer version of coreutils  This allows you to access tools like readlink -f  for absolute path to files  and realpath  absolute path to directories  on your Mac    The Homebrew version appends a  G   for GNU Tools  in front of the command name -- so the equivalents become greadlink -f FILE and grealpath DIRECTORY    Instructions for how to install the coreutils GNU Tools on Mac OS X  through Homebrew can be found in this StackExchange arcticle    NB  The readlink -f and realpath commands should work out of the box for non-Mac Unix users

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I know that this is an old question now  but just to add to the information here   The Linux command which can be used to find the filepath of a command file  i e     which ls  bin ls   There are some caveats to this  please see https   www cyberciti biz faq how-do-i-find-the-path-to-a-command-file

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