Recursively list all files in a directory including files in symlink directories

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Suppose I have a directory  dir inside which there are 3 symlinks to other directories   dir dir11   dir dir12  and  dir dir13  I want to list all the files in dir including the ones in dir11  dir12 and dir13   To be more generic  I want to list all files including the ones in the directories which are symlinks  find    ls -R  etc stop at the symlink without navigating into them to list further

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Using ls     ls -LR   from  man ls       -L  --dereference           when showing file information for a symbolic link  show informa-           tion  for  the file the link references rather than for the link           itself   Or  using find   find -L     From the find manpage   -L     Follow symbolic links    If you find you want to only follow a few symbolic links  like maybe just the toplevel ones you mentioned   you should look at the -H option  which only follows symlinks that you pass to it on the commandline

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find -L  var www  -type l    man find    -L     Follow  symbolic links   When find examines or prints information about files  the information used shall be taken from the       properties of                 the file to which the link points  not from the link itself  unless it is a broken symbolic link or find is unable to   examine the file to                 which  the link points    Use of this option implies -noleaf   If you later use the -P option  -noleaf will still be in effect   If -L is                 in effect and find discovers a symbolic link to a subdirectory during its search  the subdirectory pointed to by the   symbolic  link  will                 be searched

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find  dir -type f -follow -print   -type f means it will display real files  not symlinks   -follow means it will follow your directory symlinks  -print  will cause it to display the filenames   If you want a ls type display  you can do the following  find  dir -type f -follow -print xargs ls -l

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in case you would like to print all file contents  find   -type f -exec cat

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I knew tree was an appropriate  but I didn t have tree installed  So  I got a pretty close alternate here   find      sed -e  s   -          -- g s --   -

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How about tree  tree -l will follow symlinks   Disclaimer  I wrote this package

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ls -R -L   -L dereferences symbolic links  This will also make it impossible to see any symlinks to files  though - they ll look like the pointed-to file

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The -L option to ls will accomplish what you want  It dereferences symbolic links   So your command would be   ls -LR   You can also accomplish this with  find -follow   The -follow option directs find to follow symbolic links to directories   On Mac OS X use  find -L   as -follow has been deprecated

[linux] Recursively list all files in a directory including files in symlink directories

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