On 2009-12-09, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > Chip Panarchy wrote: > > Then I ran the following command from command-prompt; > > > > find2 . -follow -type f | sed -e "s|^\.|PATH|" -e "s|^|File:\t|" > > > > Is there a command (from Cygwin/Linux: PATH) which I can use to print > > the full directory path? > > > > Please tell me how I can make this command work. > > The default behavior of the find program is to print out paths including > the path to the directory you are searching. In your case, you're using > the current working directory (.), but you could give find the full path > instead. You can run something like the following: > > find path/to/my/directory -follow -type f | sed -e "s|^|File:\t|" > > All file paths printed by this will have path/to/my/directory included > so there is no need to have sed try to replace (.) with some other path > string.
In addition to all that, if you're trying to convert between Cygwin full path names and Windows full path names, use cygpath. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
