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Old 06-10-2007
Advanced LS?

My goal is simply to output a listing of all files in a directory and all subdirectories, one per line, ****with their full path****.

The *** part is what I can't figure out. I can get one on a line and I like having the extra info, so I'm using ls -Rl right now.

But what I get is just the file name and not its location. Yes, the directories are listed as ls enters them, but that doesn't help me much without a extra scripting which i don't know how to do yet.

My larger goal is to use the listing to ID duplicate files using uniq and then delete them. So the ls gets piped into sort and then uniq. If you know of a better way of doing that - that'd also solve my troubles.
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Old 06-10-2007
To list full name of all files in a directory and tis subdirectories :
Code:
find directory -type f -print

If you pipe the result to sort and/or uniq, you will never find duplicates files since files are with their full path.

You can start with something like that :
Code:
find directory -type f -print | sed 's!\(.*\)/!\1 !' | sort -k2,2 -k1,1

And after...
In fact the problem is to determine what are a duplicate files : files with same name, same name and same contents ...
When two or more files are identified as duplicates, which one will be deleted ?

Jean-Pierre.
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Old 06-10-2007
find /usr/local | xargs ls -ld

Replace /usr/local with the full path of the top level directory you want.
 
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