How can I generate a list of files with their absolute path in Linux?

linux command-line absolute-path ls

If you give find an absolute path to start with, it will print absolute paths. For instance, to find all .htaccess files in the current directory:

find "$(pwd)" -name .htaccess

or if your shell expands $PWD to the current directory:

find "$PWD" -name .htaccess

find simply prepends the path it was given to a relative path to the file from that path.

Greg Hewgill also suggested using pwd -P if you want to resolve symlinks in your current directory.

linux command-line absolute-path ls

readlink -f filename

gives the full absolute path. but if the file is a symlink, u'll get the final resolved name.

linux command-line absolute-path ls

Use this for dirs (the / after ** is needed in bash to limit it to directories):

ls -d -1 "$PWD/"**/

this for files and directories directly under the current directory, whose names contain a .:

ls -d -1 "$PWD/"*.*

this for everything:

ls -d -1 "$PWD/"**/*

In bash, ** is recursive if you enable shopt -s globstar.

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