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I need to print to file , a listing of all files below a certain directory.
Example: I need to print to file a listing of all files below the etc dir (including the subdirectories) with their full path. Any ideas on how to do this with one command. Or is this something I need to do on all directories ie... ls -??
TIA!

Hi,

The solution can be :

find /etc >/tmp/output

This will list all files and directories under /etc as a name.

If you want files and directories seperated you can do this :

find /etc -type d >/tmp/output_directory
find /etc -type f >/tmp/output_files

Or if you want a ls -l listing of each file :

find /etc -type f -exec ll {} \; >/tmp/long_outp_f
find /etc -type d -exec ls -lad {} \; >/tmp/long_outp_d


Good luck.

Regs David

Thanks David, that did it!

Gforty...

IF you need to do precise directories a certain depth... use the -depth option for find...

I hit a cognitive dissonance with my recollection when I read this one: On Solaris, the BSDs and others, the -depth option (which may or must be specified as -d on most of these) -depth means "do depth-first traversal". On Linux distros (slackware 3.x, Redhat 7.3, Suse x.x) there are also options -mindepth and -maxdepth which give behavior along the lines of Kelam_Magnus's suggestion.

The moral: Check your own local manpages!