List files recursively in Linux CLI with path relative to the current directory

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This is similar to this question  but I want to include the path relative to the current directory in unix  If I do the following   ls -LR   grep  txt   It doesn t include the full paths  For example  I have the following directory structure   test1 file txt test2 file1 txt test2 file2 txt   The code above will return   file txt file1 txt file2 txt   How can I get it to include the paths relative to the current directory using standard Unix commands

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You can implement this functionality like this
Firstly, using the ls command pointed to the targeted directory. Later using find command filter the result from it. From your case, it sounds like - always the filename starts with a word file***.txt

ls /some/path/here | find . -name 'file*.txt'   (* represents some wild card search)

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To get the actual full path file names of the desired files using the find command  use it with the pwd command   find   pwd  -name    txt -print

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Use tree  with -f  full path  and -i  no indentation lines    tree -if --noreport   tree -if --noreport directory    You can then use grep to filter out the ones you want     If the command is not found  you can install it   Type following command to install tree command on RHEL CentOS and Fedora linux     yum install tree -y   If you are using Debian Ubuntu  Mint Linux type following command in your terminal     sudo apt-get install tree -y

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You could use find instead   find   -name    txt

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Use find   find   -name    txt -print   On systems that use GNU find  like most GNU Linux distributions  you can leave out the -print

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You could use find instead   find   -name    txt

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Here is a Perl script   sub format lines          my  refonlines   shift      my  lines      refonlines       my  tmppath    -        foreach   lines                next if           s             if            w     w                               tmppath    1 if defined  1                  next                    print   tmppath               sub main             my  lines            while   lt  gt                  push   lines                 format lines   lines      main      usage   ls -LR   perl format ls-LR pl

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Try find  You can look it up exactly in the man page  but it s sorta like this   find  start directory  -name  what to find   so for your example  find   -name    txt   should give you what you want

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DIR your path find  DIR   sed  s    DIR         sed  will erase  your path  from all  find  results  And you recieve relative to  DIR  path

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You could use find instead   find   -name    txt

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You could create a shell function  e g  in your  zshrc or  bashrc   filepath         echo  PWD  1    filepath2         for i in     do         echo  PWD  i     done     The first one would work on single files only  obviously

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Use tree  with -f  full path  and -i  no indentation lines    tree -if --noreport   tree -if --noreport directory    You can then use grep to filter out the ones you want     If the command is not found  you can install it   Type following command to install tree command on RHEL CentOS and Fedora linux     yum install tree -y   If you are using Debian Ubuntu  Mint Linux type following command in your terminal     sudo apt-get install tree -y

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You could use find instead   find   -name    txt

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If you want to preserve the details come with ls like file size etc in your output then this should work   sed  s  lt OLDPATH gt   lt NEWPATH gt  g  input file  gt  output file

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Find the file called  filename  on your filesystem starting the search from the root directory      The  filename    find   -name  filename

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Here is a Perl script   sub format lines          my  refonlines   shift      my  lines      refonlines       my  tmppath    -        foreach   lines                next if           s             if            w     w                               tmppath    1 if defined  1                  next                    print   tmppath               sub main             my  lines            while   lt  gt                  push   lines                 format lines   lines      main      usage   ls -LR   perl format ls-LR pl

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Find the file called  filename  on your filesystem starting the search from the root directory      The  filename    find   -name  filename

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Try find  You can look it up exactly in the man page  but it s sorta like this   find  start directory  -name  what to find   so for your example  find   -name    txt   should give you what you want

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To get the actual full path file names of the desired files using the find command  use it with the pwd command   find   pwd  -name    txt -print

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Try find  You can look it up exactly in the man page  but it s sorta like this   find  start directory  -name  what to find   so for your example  find   -name    txt   should give you what you want

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That does the trick   ls -R1  PWD   while read l  do case  l in     d   l          d       echo   d  l    esac  done   grep -i   txt   But it does that by  sinning  with the parsing of ls  though  which is considered bad form by the GNU and Ghostscript communities

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Use find   find   -name    txt -print   On systems that use GNU find  like most GNU Linux distributions  you can leave out the -print

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Use find   find   -name    txt -print   On systems that use GNU find  like most GNU Linux distributions  you can leave out the -print

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That does the trick   ls -R1  PWD   while read l  do case  l in     d   l          d       echo   d  l    esac  done   grep -i   txt   But it does that by  sinning  with the parsing of ls  though  which is considered bad form by the GNU and Ghostscript communities

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You can implement this functionality like this
Firstly, using the ls command pointed to the targeted directory. Later using find command filter the result from it. From your case, it sounds like - always the filename starts with a word file***.txt

ls /some/path/here | find . -name 'file*.txt'   (* represents some wild card search)

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DIR your path find  DIR   sed  s    DIR         sed  will erase  your path  from all  find  results  And you recieve relative to  DIR  path

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In the fish shell  you can do this to list all pdfs recursively  including the ones in the current directory     ls   pdf   Just remove  pdf  if you want files of any type

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In the fish shell  you can do this to list all pdfs recursively  including the ones in the current directory     ls   pdf   Just remove  pdf  if you want files of any type

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Try find  You can look it up exactly in the man page  but it s sorta like this   find  start directory  -name  what to find   so for your example  find   -name    txt   should give you what you want

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Use find   find   -name    txt -print   On systems that use GNU find  like most GNU Linux distributions  you can leave out the -print

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If you want to preserve the details come with ls like file size etc in your output then this should work   sed  s  lt OLDPATH gt   lt NEWPATH gt  g  input file  gt  output file

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In mycase  with tree command  Relative path  tree -ifF   dir   grep -v     dir     grep -v          grep           while read file  do   echo  file done   Absolute path  tree -ifF   dir   grep -v     dir     grep -v          grep           while read file  do   echo  file   sed -e  s     PWD g  done

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You could create a shell function  e g  in your  zshrc or  bashrc   filepath         echo  PWD  1    filepath2         for i in     do         echo  PWD  i     done     The first one would work on single files only  obviously

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In mycase  with tree command  Relative path  tree -ifF   dir   grep -v     dir     grep -v          grep           while read file  do   echo  file done   Absolute path  tree -ifF   dir   grep -v     dir     grep -v          grep           while read file  do   echo  file   sed -e  s     PWD g  done

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