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bash/fish command to print absolute path to a file
Say I'm in a directory /usr/temp/foo, which has a file named bar.txt
How do I get the fullpath of bar.txt? (which should be /usr/tem/foo/bar.txt)
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euh, `echo /usr/temp/foo/bar.txt`...? – Sep 16 '12 at 19:42
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No, but if I have 1000 files, I wouldn't want to do `echo pwd ...` for all 1000 of those – user1508893 Sep 16 '12 at 19:46
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Then save $(pwd) in a variable, and prepend the variable. – dstromberg Sep 16 '12 at 19:53
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`bash` already has a variable `$PWD` that stores the current working directory. – chepner Sep 16 '12 at 20:40
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Try:
readlink -f bar.txt
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Perhaps, but `realpath` isn't by default on my mint machine. I figured `readlink` as part of the GNU tools, would be more common. – Jeremy J Starcher Sep 16 '12 at 20:36
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How about printing fullpaths of all files ending with certain extension? I've tried `readline -f *.c` (all C-source files), but it didn't seem to work? – user1508893 Sep 17 '12 at 00:01
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Combine it with find: `find . -name '*.c' -exec readlink -f {} \;` – Jeremy J Starcher Sep 17 '12 at 00:04