It depends on your distro, Fedora has this, example :
If I invoke "ls -lR" at my home folder I will see :
Quote:
./builds/project/number/the-last-one
./cluster/man/
./cvs/root/project/units/case/number
So, if you enter certain folder, and invoke just "ls -lR" it will print the full path, but if you do "ls -lR some-folder" it will accept "some-folder" as base, and will lsit everything after with "some-folder" considered as main one.
For this issue, you should be able to find the answer in "man ls" once again, it depends on the distro.