[ale] windoze scripts to linux scripts

[Jim Kinney]

I have always wondered why ls lacks a show_full_path flag. It has nearly
everything else.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:39 AM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2011/05/26, at 16:16 , Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>
> > The Don Lachlan wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 05:55:43PM -0400, arxaaron wrote:
> >>> On 2011/05/25, at 15:54 , Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> >>>> What I am looking for is  In Windoze, I can do dir /s /b c:\bin and
> >>>> it will list all files with full path names
> >>>> c:\bin\putty.exe
> >>>> c:\bin\putty.cfg
> >>>> How do I do that Linux world ?  I know you will tell me do find ~/
> >>>> bin -name "META-INF" -print
> >>>> but what I want is the full name of the file including the path.
> >>> The standard output of the find command IS the full
> >>> path name (starting at the root /)
> >>> On this machine, doing a find of type file on my
> >>> home directory:
> >>>
> >>>   find ~ -type f
> >>> yeilds:
> >>> /Users/arx/Sites/images/apache_pb.gif
> >>
> >> Aaron,
> >>
> >> That's because ~ expands to /Users/arx/ - "find -print" returns the
> >> path
> >> relative to whatever directory was specified. If you specify a local
> >> directory, it prints a local directory.
> >>
> >> So you may solve his problem but it does not start at the root /.
> >
> > find $(pwd) -print
>
> I got hung up on this challenge and found that solution
> in my searches as well.   Of course, the requisite for making
> that work is to cd into the target directory before listing
> it.
>
> Anyway, inside a script one should probably be specifying
> the full path to files/dirs (or cd to a known home base starting
> point) in order to avoid any ambiguity from relative run time
> environments.
>
> I still didn't find any single command or option combination
> for [find | ls | {etc}] that would list any arbitrary file with its
> full path.  A trivial issue to address, but it's interesting that
> it doesn't seem to be in the standard tool chest.  Wonder
> if having such would present a security issue?
>
> peace
> aaron
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