Command to list all files

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Hi

Is there a command(s) which can be used to get a list of all files, including all files in all subdirectories on a given volume?

Thanks :slight_smile:

All My Best,
Jeffrey

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You will need read permission on all of the directories so you may need to do this as root. First "cd mountpoint" then use the find command. So for /usr:
cd /usr
find . -print

Also there is a -R option to ls so:
ls -lR
is another approach.

3

Try this
#ls -ltR

4

You could try

ls -1R

or

find /path/to/search -name '*.*'
5

Hi--

Thanks all :slight_smile:

Ok. It looks like I need a more specific control over ls or find. These seem to be finding not only all the files on the volume I want, but also, since the volumes directory exists on the volume, all files on *all* the volumes.

Is there a way to exclude any files in the volumes directory, and, to also list the modification time and date and size of each file found?

Thanks again :slight_smile:

All My Best,
Jeffrey

6

What os? Do "uname -a" to find out.

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Darwin xxx 8.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.3.0: Mon Oct 3 20:04:04 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.6.22.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc