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.
ls -ld $(find .)
if you want to sort your output by modification time:
ls -ltd $(find .)
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.
If you have to search on big memory like 100 Gb or more.
I suggest to do the command tree that @kerkael posted and not the find or ls.
Then do the command tree with only difference that, I suggest, write the output in the file.
Example:
tree -fi > result.txt
After, do a grep command in file using a pattern like grep -i "*.docx" result.txt so you not lose a time and this way is faster for search file on big memory.
I did these commands on 270GB memory that I get a file txt taken 100MB.
Ah, the time that taken for command tree was 14 minutes.
