ls command how can I get a recursive full-path listing one line per file

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How can I get ls to spit out a flat list of recursive one-per-line paths   For example  I just want a flat listing of files with their full paths    home dreftymac    home dreftymac foo txt  home dreftymac bar txt  home dreftymac stackoverflow  home dreftymac stackoverflow alpha txt  home dreftymac stackoverflow bravo txt  home dreftymac stackoverflow charlie txt   ls -a1 almost does what I need  but I do not want path fragments  I want full paths

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With having the freedom of using all possible ls options   find -type f   xargs ls -1

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I think for a flat list the best way is   find -D tree  fullpath to-dir      or in order to save it in a txt file   find -D tree  fullpath to-dir   gt  file txt

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tar cf -  PWD tar tvf -                This is slow but works recursively and prints both directories and files  You can pipe it with awk grep if you just want the file names without all the other info directories   tar cf -  PWD tar tvf - awk   print  6   grep -v

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The realpath command prints the resolved path  realpath    To include dot files  pipe the output of ls -a to realpath  ls -a   xargs realpath  To list subdirectories recursively  ls -aR   xargs realpath  In case you have spaces in file names  man xargs recommends using the -o option to prevent file names from being processed incorrectly  this works best with the output of find -print0 and it starts to look a lot more complex than other answers  find -print0  xargs -0 realpath  See also Unix and Linux stackexchange question on how to list all files in a directory with absolute path

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A lot of answers I see  This is mine  and I think quite useful if you are working on Mac   I m sure you know there are some  bundle  files   app   rtfd   workflow  and so on   And looking at Finder s window they seem single files  But they are not  And   ls or   find see them as directories    So  unless you need list their contents as well  this works for me   find   -not -name      -not -name       egrep -v    rtfd    app    lpdf    workflow     Of course this is for the working dir  and you could add other bundles  extensions  but always with a   after them   Or any other extensions if not bundle s without the     Rather interesting the   lpdf    multilingual pdf   It has normal   pdf  extension      or none in Finder  This way you get  or it just counts 1 file  for this pdf and not a bunch of stuff

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find   will do the trick

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The easiest way for all you future people is simply   du   This however  also shows the size of whats contained in each folder You can use awk to output only the folder name   du   awk   print  2     Edit- Sorry sorry  my bad  I thought it was only folders that were needed  Ill leave this here in case anyone in the future needs it anyways

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Best command is  tree -fi -f print the full path prefix for each file -i don t print indentations e g    tree -fi     README md   node modules   package json   src   src datasources   src datasources bookmarks js   src example json   src index js   src resolvers js   src schema js  In order to use the files but not the links  you have to remove  gt  from your output  tree -fi  grep -v   gt   If you want to know the nature of each file   to read only ASCII files for example  with two whiles  tree -fi     grep -v   gt      while read first   do      file   first  done     while read second  do      echo   second    grep ASCII done

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I don t know about the full path  but you can use -R for recursion   Alternatively  if you re not bent on ls  you can just do find

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Run a bash command with the following format   find  path -type f -exec ls -l

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Here is a partial answer that shows the directory names    ls -mR     sed -n  s    p    Explanation   ls -mR   lists the full directory names ending in a      then lists the files in that directory separately  sed -n  s    p  finds lines that end in a colon  strip off the colon and print the line  By iterating over the list of directories  we should be able to find the directories as well  Still workin on it  It is a challenge to get the wildcards through xargs

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If the directory is passed as a relative path and you will need to convert it to an absolute path before calling find   In the following example  the directory is passed as the first parameter to the script      bin bash    get absolute path directory  cd  1  pwd    print out list of files and directories find  directory

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Use find   find   find  home dreftymac   If you want files only  omit directories  devices  etc    find   -type f find  home dreftymac -type f

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ghostdog74  Little tweak with your solution   Following code can be used to search file with its full absolute path   sudo ls -R     awk   lt br  gt       amp  amp f s  0 f 0  lt br  gt       amp  amp  f sub          s  0 f 1 next  lt br  gt  NF amp  amp f  print s    0      grep  file to search

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du -a   Handy for some limited appliance shells where find locate aren t available

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ls -lR  is what you were looking for  or atleast I was  cheers

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If you really want to use ls  then format its output using awk   ls -R  path   awk        amp  amp f s  0 f 0       amp  amp  f sub          s  0 f 1 next  NF amp  amp f  print s    0

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Don t make it complicated  I just used this and got a beautiful output   ls -lR  path I need

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Recursive list of all files from current location  ls -l   find   -type f

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I knew the file name but wanted the directory as well  find  PWD   fgrep filename  worked perfectly in Mac OS 10 12 1

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Using no external commands other than ls    ls -R1  path      while read l  do case  l in     d   l          d       echo   d  l    esac  done

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Oh  really a long list of answers   It helped a lot and finally  I created my own which I was looking for    To List All the Files in a directory and its sub-directories   find   PWD  -type f   To List All the Directories in a directory and its sub-directories   find   PWD  -type d   To List All the Directories and Files in a directory and its sub-directories   find   PWD

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Adding a wildcard to the end of an ls directory forces full paths  Right now you have this     ls  home dreftymac  foo txt bar txt stackoverflow stackoverflow alpha txt stackoverflow bravo txt stackoverflow charlie txt   You could do this instead     ls  home dreftymac    home dreftymac    home dreftymac foo txt  home dreftymac bar txt  home dreftymac stackoverflow  alpha txt bravo txt charlie txt   Unfortunately this does not print the full path for directories recursed into  so it may not be the full solution you re looking for

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Try the following simpler way   find   PWD

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ls -ld   find     if you want to sort your output by modification time   ls -ltd   find

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