How to recursively list all files and directories

Question

Using the tcsh shell on Free BSD, is there a way to recursively list all files and directories including the owner, group and relative path to the file?

ls -alR comes close, but it does not show the relative path in front of every file, it shows the path at the top of a grouping i.e.

owner% ls -alR
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 owner  group  102 Feb  1 10:50 .
drwx------+ 27 owner  group  918 Feb  1 10:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 owner  group  170 Feb  1 10:50 subfolder

./subfolder:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  5 owner  group   170 Feb  1 10:50 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 owner  group   102 Feb  1 10:50 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 owner  group     0 Feb  1 10:50 file1
-rw-r--r--  1 owner  group     0 Feb  1 10:50 file2

What I would like is output like:

owner group ./relative/path/to/file

The accepted answer to this question shows the relative path to a file, but does not show the owner and group.

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '09 at 19:07

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How about this:

find . -exec ls -dl \{\} \; | awk '{print $3, $4, $9}'

answered Feb 01 '09 at 19:07

James Brady

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It looks like this fails if there are any spaces in the path because awk will create another field. There any way to print from $9 to the end of the line? – Ben Feb 02 '09 at 16:42
Right you are! You *could* read the ls output into a function, shift your way though the arguments and use $@ to read "the rest of the line", but honestly, it's getting messy enough that I'd just write a little Python utility and do it The Right Way instead.. – James Brady Feb 02 '09 at 17:11
Or try one of the Perl solutions suggested by slim or Chris. – James Brady Feb 02 '09 at 17:32
Spaces in the path? I thought that this question was tagged "linux" – Bruno9779 Nov 18 '13 at 12:49
@Bruno9779 Spaces in the path are very much allowed in Linux -- try it -- `touch 'my file with spaces'`. Some people discourage it because it's easy to write shell scripts that choke on them -- but you can't prevent apps and users from creating filenames with spaces. – slim Feb 10 '16 at 10:09

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 04 '09 at 18:32

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Use tree. Few linux distributions install it by default (in these dark days of only GUIs :-), but it's always available in the standard repositories. It should be available for *BSD also, see http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/

Use:

tree -p -u -g -f -i

or

tree -p -u -g -f

or check the man page for many other useful arguments.

answered Feb 04 '09 at 18:32

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You can add the `-a` flag to show hidden files as well. – Enterprise Apr 09 '21 at 23:29

score 20 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 27 '12 at 23:47

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Works in Linux Debian:

find $PWD -type f

answered Nov 27 '12 at 23:47

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Works flawlessly on Mac OS X Mountain Lion as well. Thanks. – pyronaur Oct 05 '13 at 08:13
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If your current directory path contains spaces, surround `$PWD` with double quotes: `find "$PWD" -type f` – Antônio Medeiros Nov 03 '15 at 10:09
Just in case, it also works on Git Bash from GitHub for Windows. – Antônio Medeiros Nov 03 '15 at 10:11
Not only does this work with macOS out of the box, but it's also nice, short and memorable. Though I realise this solution doesn't list owner and group. For this you'd need one of the other more verbose solutions. – Alex Ixeras Sep 18 '17 at 09:47

score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 01 '09 at 19:07

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find comes close:

find . -printf "%u %g %p\n"

There is also "%P", which removes the prefix from the filename, if you want the paths to be relative to the specified directory.

Note that this is GNU find, I don't know if the BSD find also supports -printf.

answered Feb 01 '09 at 19:07

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BSD find indeed doesn't support -printf, but it's easy enough to install GNU find to ~/bin/gnufind ;) – John Douthat Apr 08 '09 at 19:17

score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 20 '11 at 10:14

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You've already got an answer that works, but for reference you should be able to do this on the BSDs (I've tested it on a mac) :

find . -ls

answered Mar 20 '11 at 10:14

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score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 01 '09 at 19:42

If you fancy using Perl don't use it as a wrapper around shell commands. Doing it in native Perl is faster, more portable, and more resilient. Plus it avoids ad-hoc regexes.

use File::Find;
use File::stat;

find (\&myList, ".");

sub myList {
   my $st = lstat($_) or die "No $file: $!";

   print  getgrnam($st->gid), " ", 
          getpwuid($st->uid), " ", 
          $File::Find::name, "\n";
}

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 17 '19 at 12:56

Simple way I found was this:

ls -lthr /path_to_directory/*

" * " - represents levels.

Ajiths-MBP:test ajith$ ls -lthr *
test2:
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ajith  staff     0B Oct 17 18:22 test2.txt

test3:
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ajith  staff     0B Oct 17 18:22 test3.txt

test1:
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ajith  staff     0B Oct 17 18:21 test1.txt
drwxr-xr-x  3 ajith  staff    96B Oct 17 18:22 test1_sub_dir


Ajiths-MBP:test ajith$ ls -lthr */*
-rw-r--r--  1 ajith  staff     0B Oct 17 18:21 test1/test1.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 ajith  staff     0B Oct 17 18:22 test2/test2.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 ajith  staff     0B Oct 17 18:22 test3/test3.txt

test1/test1_sub_dir:
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ajith  staff     0B Oct 17 18:22 test1_sub_file.txt

score -4 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 01 '09 at 19:09

Use a shell script. Or a Perl script. Example Perl script (because it's easier for me to do):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
foreach(`find . -name \*`) {
  chomp;
  my $ls = `ls -l $_`;
  # an incomprehensible string of characters because it's Perl
  my($owner, $group) = /\S+\s+\S+\s+(\S+)\s+(\S)+/;
  printf("%-10s %-10s %s\n", $owner, $group, $_);
}

Perhaps a bit more verbose than the other answers, but should do the trick, and should save you having to remember what to type. (Code untested.)

Looks like the OP wanted an answer "[u]sing the tcsh shell on Free BSD". — David J., Feb 20 '17 at 04:17

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