Hello Linux Masters!

I have a particular problem I need to solve related to the "ls" command and
globbing.

As an example, to see the all of the files in the root directories of my
websites I do:
$ ls -m /var/www/*

This gives me the output in the form:
---
/var/www/site1:
index.html, some_image.jpg

/var/www/site2:
index.html, some_other_file
---

Which is beautiful, but I need to work with the output, hence I need the
full filepaths, something like this:
---
/var/www/site1/index.html, /var/www/site1/some_image.jpg,
/var/www/site2/index.html, /var/www/site2/some_other_file
---
Is there any known way to get that kind of output instead?


Muchas Gracias (Thanks),
Rob

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:45:33AM +0100, Robert MannI wrote:
> Hello Linux Masters!
>
> I have a particular problem I need to solve related to the "ls" command
> and
> globbing.
>
> As an example, to see the all of the files in the root directories of my
> websites I do:
> $ ls -m /var/www/*
>
> This gives me the output in the form:
> ---
> /var/www/site1:
> index.html, some_image.jpg
>
> /var/www/site2:
> index.html, some_other_file
> ---
>
> Which is beautiful, but I need to work with the output, hence I need the
> full filepaths, something like this:
> ---
> /var/www/site1/index.html, /var/www/site1/some_image.jpg,
> /var/www/site2/index.html, /var/www/site2/some_other_file
> ---
> Is there any known way to get that kind of output instead?

find /var/www

then you get the full joy of using find's many features too. just
remember if you are using globbing in find's arguments (such as -name
or -iname) that you should escape the wildcards ala \*

if you really want a comma seperated list, the check out sed or cut.

hth

A

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> > I need the
> > full filepaths, something like this:
> > ---
> > /var/www/site1/index.html, /var/www/site1/some_image.jpg,
> > /var/www/site2/index.html, /var/www/site2/some_other_file
> > ---
> > Is there any known way to get that kind of output instead?
>
> find /var/www
>
> then you get the full joy of using find's many features too.

And certainly some of those options are needed to print just "all of
the files in the root directories... "

find /var/www/* -follow -maxdepth 1 -type f

> if you really want a comma seperated list, the check out sed or cut.

Maybe this would suffice (note it prints directories as well):

ls -dm /var/www/*/*


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> > I need the
> > full filepaths, something like this:
> > ---
> > /var/www/site1/index.html, /var/www/site1/some_image.jpg,
> > /var/www/site2/index.html, /var/www/site2/some_other_file
> > ---
> > Is there any known way to get that kind of output instead?
>
> find /var/www
>
> then you get the full joy of using find's many features too.

And certainly some of those options are needed to print just "all of
the files in the root directories... "

find /var/www/* -follow -maxdepth 1 -type f

> if you really want a comma seperated list, the check out sed or cut.

Maybe this would suffice (note it prints directories as well):

ls -dm /var/www/*/*


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> > > I need the
> > > full filepaths, something like this:
> > > ---
> > > /var/www/site1/index.html, /var/www/site1/some_image.jpg,
> > > /var/www/site2/index.html, /var/www/site2/some_other_file
> > > ---
> > > Is there any known way to get that kind of output instead?
> >
> > find /var/www
> >
> > then you get the full joy of using find's many features too.

On 28.01.07 23:53, x_debian-user_x@nospam.pz.podzone.net wrote:
> And certainly some of those options are needed to print just "all of
> the files in the root directories... "
>
> find /var/www/* -follow -maxdepth 1 -type f

this will not work, except you only have one non-dot entry in /var/www - the
first argument can only be one directory, where /var/www/* will be expanded
to list of all files/directories (except those beginning with a dot) in
/var/www.

> > if you really want a comma seperated list, the check out sed or cut.
>
> Maybe this would suffice (note it prints directories as well):
>
> ls -dm /var/www/*/*

yes, this might work

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> > find /var/www/* -follow -maxdepth 1 -type f
>
> this will not work, except you only have one non-dot entry in /var/www - the
> first argument can only be one directory, where /var/www/* will be expanded
> to list of all files/directories (except those beginning with a dot) in
> /var/www.

Ummm, it works for me... ;-) Using GNU 'find' as supplied with Debian.

>
> > > if you really want a comma seperated list, the check out sed or cut.
> >
> > Maybe this would suffice (note it prints directories as well):
> >
> > ls -dm /var/www/*/*
>
> yes, this might work

Indeed it does too.


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x_debian-user_x@nospam.pz.podzone.net wrote:
>>> find /var/www/* -follow -maxdepth 1 -type f
>> this will not work, except you only have one non-dot entry in /var/www - the
>> first argument can only be one directory, where /var/www/* will be expanded
>> to list of all files/directories (except those beginning with a dot) in
>> /var/www.
>
> Ummm, it works for me... ;-) Using GNU 'find' as supplied with Debian.

As it does, as well, on Solaris (the only other *nix OS available to me
at the moment). From the Solaris man page, the synopsis says:

SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/find path... expression

/usr/xpg4/bin/find path... expression

Note the ellipses (...) after the 'path' in each. As well, there are no
restrictions as to whether path is a directory or a filename, either.

The primary issue with the form the original poster used (and it may not
be an issue, either, but intentional) is that the wildcard path will
automatically *exclude* any and all files/directories whose names begin
with a dot, such as .kde or .tkman, for example.

Whether this is a problem or a feature depends on exactly what the OP is
trying to do.

Bob

>
>>>> if you really want a comma seperated list, the check out sed or cut.
>>> Maybe this would suffice (note it prints directories as well):
>>>
>>> ls -dm /var/www/*/*
>> yes, this might work
>
> Indeed it does too.
>
>

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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> if you really want a comma seperated list, the check out sed or cut.

or find's -printf option.
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:26:46PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> The primary issue with the form the original poster used
> (and it may not be an issue, either, but intentional) is
> that the wildcard path will automatically *exclude* any
> and all files/directories whose names begin with a dot,
> such as .kde or .tkman, for example.
>
> Whether this is a problem or a feature depends on exactly
> what the OP is trying to do.

It'll also fail if the glob expands to too many arguments.
Generally if you're using find, its to get around
limitations with argv lengths, ls output, coping with
spaces/odd chars in names, etc., so avoiding a glob in the
find call is probably worth it.


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