Recursively List Files from a Given Directory in Bash

Recursively list all files in a directory including files in symlink directories

The -L option to ls will accomplish what you want. It dereferences symbolic links.

So your command would be:

ls -LR

You can also accomplish this with

find -follow

The -follow option directs find to follow symbolic links to directories.

On Mac OS X use

find -L

as -follow has been deprecated.

Recursively list files from a given directory in Bash

Your algorithm is entering endless loop since lsRec function implicitly expects its argument to end in "/". First level works, as you pass path ending with "/" as input, but second level doesn't, as the path you're making recursive call with doesn't end in "/". What you could do is either add the slash when you make a recursive call, so it'll look like lsRec $x/, or (better yet) add the slash in the loop arguments as in for x in $1/*; do (as system generally ignores multiple adjacent path separators).

Moving forward, I'd advise you to quote the values (e.g. for x in "$1/"*, lsRec "$x", lsRec "$arg") to avoid issues when path contains whitespace characters. You'll get there when you create a directory with space in its name under directory hierarchy you're scanning.

How can I get a recursive full-path listing, one line per file?

If you really want to use ls, then format its output using awk:

ls -R /path | awk '
/:$/&&f{s=$0;f=0}
/:$/&&!f{sub(/:$/,"");s=$0;f=1;next}
NF&&f{ print s"/"$0 }'

How to loop through a directory recursively to delete files with certain extensions

find is just made for that.

find /tmp -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.doc' | xargs rm

Bash - What is a good way to recursively find the type of all files in a directory and its subdirectories?

This may help: How to recursively list subdirectories in Bash without using "find" or "ls" commands?

That said, I modified it to accept user input as follows:

#!/bin/bash

recurse() {
 for i in "$1"/*;do
    if [ -d "$i" ];then
        echo "dir: $i"
        recurse "$i"
    elif [ -f "$i" ]; then
        echo "file: $i"
    fi
 done
}

recurse $1

If you didn't want the files portion (which it appears you don't) then just remove the elif and line below it. I left it in as the original post had it also. Hope this helps.

List files recursively in Linux CLI with path relative to the current directory

Use find:

find . -name \*.txt -print

On systems that use GNU find, like most GNU/Linux distributions, you can leave out the -print.

How can I recursively find all files in current and subfolders based on wildcard matching?

Use find:

find . -name "foo*"

find needs a starting point, so the . (dot) points to the current directory.

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