Re: find and list only files

Subject: Re: find and list only files
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 13:10:26 AKST

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 lee@afabco.com wrote:

>
> What's the find syntax to search a tree but list only the files (along with
> the full path) found? Not the empty subdirs, just the full filenames.

  find [full path] -type f

For example, listing all files under /usr/local would be:

  find /usr/local -type f

If you do something like:

  find . type f

you would get a listing of all files at or below the current directory
structure, but you wouldn't get full pathnames.

Mike 

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