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Old 11-22-2007, 05:20 AM   #1
googlix
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Listing files including full path in the output


Hello All,

I would like to know whether it's possible or not to list a file including its full path, something like this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 rodrigo admin 538 Nov 22 08:52 /etc/rodrigo.txt

I couldn't find anything about this in the ls man page so I presume that this is not possible using it. So if anyone have an alternative way of doing this I would appreciate if you could post the solution here.

Thank You!

Rodrigo Azevedo
 
Old 11-22-2007, 05:40 AM   #2
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The nearest that I can find is 'ls -lR' to give a recursive long-list. First the directory (with full path) is listed, then the files in that directory are listed (without path).

You might be able to combine the output of 'ls -lR' with an awk script to display the output in the format you want.

Last edited by bigrigdriver; 11-22-2007 at 05:42 AM.
 
Old 11-22-2007, 06:03 AM   #3
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you could try to use the -ls option of the find command.
For e.g

find / -ls
 
Old 11-22-2007, 06:07 AM   #4
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If you run a find and then pass the args to ls, the full path shows up. For example:
Code:
find /bin -name bash -exec ls -l {} \;
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       626028 Feb 11  2003 /bin/bash
Edit: dmedhora's solution is nicer

Last edited by indeliblestamp; 11-22-2007 at 06:08 AM.
 
Old 11-22-2007, 06:42 AM   #5
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As long as you include the full path name of the file or directory to list, "ls -l" will show what you want.
example:
ls /etc/rc* -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-10-08 13:38 /etc/rc.d -> init.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 611 2002-05-21 10:01 /etc/rc.d.README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2772 2006-08-24 07:44 /etc/rc.splash
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8498 2006-08-24 07:43 /etc/rc.status

So using find isn't necessary.

Last edited by jschiwal; 11-22-2007 at 06:45 AM.
 
Old 11-23-2007, 11:40 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by arungoodboy View Post
If you run a find and then pass the args to ls, the full path shows up. For example:
Code:
find /bin -name bash -exec ls -l {} \;
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       626028 Feb 11  2003 /bin/bash
Edit: dmedhora's solution is nicer
That's solved the problem! Thank You!

Actually I have tried this but it didn't work because I was running the find command inside the directory where the files to be listed were located so the ls -l command was showing the relative path. To resolve this all I needed to do was moving up to / and then run the find command again.

Thank You very much!!
 
Old 11-23-2007, 02:05 PM   #7
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When I want the full path like this, I always use the program or command tree, which neatly displays it as a tree format.

It will look something like this:

Code:
[trickykid@trickykid postfix]$ tree -psutf
.
|-- [-rw-rw-r-- trickyki   2714403]  ./postfix-2.3.8-i486-1stb.tgz
|-- [drwxr-xr-x trickyki      4096]  ./install
|   |-- [-rw-r--r-- trickyki      2325]  ./install/doinst.sh
|   |-- [-rw-r--r-- trickyki        64]  ./install/slack-required
|   |-- [-rw-r--r-- trickyki        28]  ./install/slack-conflicts
|   `-- [-rw-r--r-- trickyki       563]  ./install/slack-desc
 
Old 11-23-2007, 02:57 PM   #8
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Quote:
Originally Posted by googlix View Post
That's solved the problem! Thank You!

Actually I have tried this but it didn't work because I was running the find command inside the directory where the files to be listed were located so the ls -l command was showing the relative path. To resolve this all I needed to do was moving up to / and then run the find command again.

Thank You very much!!
Code:
find /bin -name bash -exec ls -l {} \;
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       626028 Feb 11  2003 /bin/bash
One word of caution: if you're not looking for a particular
file but want a whole list of stuff w/ sub-directories, you'd
want to change the "ls -l" to an "ls -ld" or narrow the type
in find down to "-type f" if you're not interested in directory
names at all.




Cheers,
Tink
 
Old 11-24-2007, 05:04 AM   #9
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Actually jschiwal's answer looks incredibly elegant. If you give the full path in the ls command itself, it works exactly as required (This also seems to be why the find command works if you give it with the path, but doesn't if you run it from the same directory).
So I vote for ls -l /etc/hosts as the neatest way to solve this.
 
Old 11-24-2007, 05:18 AM   #10
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Lets say you want the full pathname of a file, or files from the current directory, but you don't know or can't assume where you are. You could use:
ls $(pwd)/filename
 
  


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