If you need to see everything that’s listed under a specific directory under unix, you have 2 options. (That I know of)
ls -R (And whatever other options you like)
This will create a recursive listing of all files and directories under the location you are at when you invoke this command.
find . -print
I actually found that I like this one better because of how it formats the output, making it a tiny bit easier
Output examples after the break:
tetsu% ls -R
.:
#.cshrc# hw2.pl perlsource/./perlsource:
#hw2.pl# test.pl
% ls -alR
.:
total 18
-rw-r–r– 1052 Feb 6 2007 #.cshrc#
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 26 2007 ./
drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 1024 May 12 2009 ../
-rw-r–r– 1098 Feb 6 2007 .cshrc
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 6 2007 .emacs.d/
-rw-r–r– 669 Jan 4 2007 .login
-rw-r–r– 0 Feb 26 2007 hw2.pl
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 26 2007 perlsourc./.emacs.d:
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 6 2007 ./
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 26 2007 ../
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 26 2007 auto-save./.emacs.d/auto-save-list:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 26 2007 ./
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 6 2007 .././perlsource:
total 6
-rw-r–r– 0 Feb 26 2007 #hw2.pl#
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 26 2007 ./
drwxr-xr-x 512 Feb 26 2007 ../
-rw-r–r– 165 Feb 14 2007 test.pl
%
OR
% ls -R
.:
#.cshrc# hw2.pl perlsource/./perlsource:
#hw2.pl# test.pl
%
~ ~ ~
I like the find option because it seems to not need to be scrutinized too hard to understand what you’ve got:
% find . -print
.
./.login
./.cshrc
./hw2.pl
./perlsource
./perlsource/test.pl
./perlsource/#hw2.pl#
./.emacs.d
./.emacs.d/auto-save-list
./#.cshrc#
%
Now you know!
