Recursively List all directories and files

Question

I would like to receive the following output.

Suppose the directory structure on the file system is like this:

  -dir1
      -dir2
        -file1
        -file2
             -dir3
                -file3
                -file4
            -dir4
                -file5
       -dir5
             -dir6
             -dir7

The output from the script must be like:

Directories:

/dir1
/dir1/dir2
/dir1/dir2/dir3
/dir1/dir2/dir4
/dir1/dir5
/dir1/dir5/dir6
/dir1/dir5/dir7

Files:

/dir1
/dir1/dir2/file1
/dir1/dir2/file2
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file3
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file4
/dir1/dir2/dir4/file5
/dir1/dir5/dir6
/dir1/dir5/dir7

Could you tell me how to keep the output of find . -type d and find . -type f into another file?

er, there's an inconsistency, you have dirs listed in your file output. Isn't that like, wrong? — Kent Fredric, Apr 14 '09 at 13:14
Hi I use unix/aix - korn shell apologies if there is something wrong. . I am new to this field — , Apr 14 '09 at 15:04

score 90 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 31 '11 at 05:31

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In windows, to list only directories:

dir /ad /b /s

to list all files (and no directories):

dir /a-d /b /s

redirect the output to a file:

dir /a-d /b /s > filename.txt

dir command parameters explained on wikipedia

edited Mar 31 '11 at 05:31

ryan

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answered Apr 14 '09 at 13:16

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Is it possible to list file sizes without grouping by folder? I'd like to import into Excel and do some reports. – Nic Cottrell Sep 01 '12 at 09:04
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@Nic Cottrell If you remove /b, it will show with file sizes and timestamps – Brian Jan 19 '15 at 21:21
The OP asked for shell, not windows. Why does this have so many upvotes? – dtrunk Mar 31 '22 at 14:28

Kent Fredric · Answer 2 · 2009-04-14T15:50:48.160

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Bash/Linux Shell

Directories:

find ./ -type d

Files:

find ./ -type f

Bash/Shell Into a file

Directories:

find ./ -type d  > somefile.txt

Files:

find ./ -type f  > somefile.txt

edited Apr 14 '09 at 15:50

answered Apr 14 '09 at 13:13

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find ./ -type d,f – siddhusingh Jun 02 '23 at 06:49

score 29 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 14 '09 at 13:13

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in shell:

find . -type d

gives directories from current working directory, and:

find . -type f

gives files from current working directory.

Replace . by your directory of interest.

answered Apr 14 '09 at 13:13

mouviciel

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score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 14 '09 at 13:47

On Windows, you can do it like this as most flexibile solution that allows you to additionally process dir names.

You use FOR /R to recursively execute batch commands.

Check out this batch file.

@echo off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion

SET N=0
for /R %%i in (.) do (
     SET DIR=%%i

     ::put anything here, for instance the following code add dir numbers.
     SET /A N=!N!+1
     echo !N! !DIR!
)

Similary for files you can add pattern as a set instead of dot, in your case

 (*.*)

The OP asked for shell, not windows batch. – dtrunk Mar 31 '22 at 14:29 — dtrunk, Mar 31 '22 at 14:29

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 14 '09 at 13:18

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In Linux, a simple

find . -printf '%y %p\n'

will give you a list of all the contained items, with directories and files mixed. You can save this output to a temporary file, then extract all lines that start with 'd'; those will be the directories. Lines that start with an 'f' are files.

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find ./ -type d,f – siddhusingh Jun 02 '23 at 06:49

score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

This is an old question, but I thought I'd add something anyhow.

DIR doesn't traverse correctly all the directory trees you want, in particular not the ones on C:. It simply gives up in places because of different protections.

ATTRIB works much better, because it finds more. (Why this difference? Why would MS make one utility work one way and another work different in this respect? Damned if I know.) In my experience the most effective way to handle this, although it's a kludge, is to get two listings:

attrib /s /d C:\ >%TEMP%\C-with-directories.txt

attrib /s C:\ >%TEMP%\C-without-directories.txt

and get the difference between them. That difference is the directories on C: (except the ones that are too well hidden). For C:, I'd usually do this running as administrator.

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 14 '09 at 13:16

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In Windows :

dir /ad /b /s

dir /a-d /b /s

answered Apr 14 '09 at 13:16

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Bash/Linux Shell

Bash/Shell Into a file

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