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Old 12-21-2014
Remove leading dot and slash on relative paths with find
When I specify a directory by name the leading ./ is not shown:
Code:
$ find somedir/
somedir/a.bin
somedir/target/out.bin

But when I specify current dir it adds the ./ to the beginning of each result:
Code:
$ find . | grep somedir
./somedir/a.bin
./somedir/target/out.bin

Is there any particular reason why find behaves like that and how to fix?

---------- Post updated at 03:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:39 PM ----------

I answer to myself:

Code:
find . | sed -e "s/^\.\///g"

I don't use bash asterisk wildcard expansion because of ARG_MAX limit on some systems:
Code:
find * -type f

The maximum length of arguments for a new process
# 2  
Old 12-22-2014
Hello Tribe,

Could you please try following and let us know if this helps, for me it works well(I am using bash).
Code:
find -type f -printf '%P\n'

You can check it in man find as follows too.
Quote:
%P File's name with the name of the command line argument under which it was found removed.
Thanks,
R. Singh
# 3  
Old 12-22-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
Hello Tribe,

Could you please try following and let us know if this helps, for me it works well(I am using bash).
Code:
find -type f -printf '%P\n'

You can check it in man find as follows too.


Thanks,
R. Singh
printf is not available on android, os x or freebsd so isn't really portable. I'll stick with the sed option.
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