command to list all the files and with the path also

[Scott R. Godin]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:29:19 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Scott R. Godin wrote:

> > perhaps better would be 
> >     find -exec ls -ld {} \;
> 
> Define better.  :)
> 
> Here's the time to run both commands on a new users home directory on
> my system (Core Duo T2300, 1GB RAM).
> 
> find ~ | xargs ls -ld:
> 
>     real    0m0.019s
>     user    0m0.008s
>     sys     0m0.008s
> 
> find ~ -exec ls -ld {}:
> 
>     real    0m1.007s
>     user    0m0.072s
>     sys     0m0.212s
> 
> That's on a directory with only 121 entries found by find.  Ouch.
> 
> And, the find -exec command's output wasn't aligned consistently like
> it is when run from xargs (since with -exec you're executing an ls for
> each file or dir, AFAIK).

ouch indeed. you make a good point. Appreciate the clarification. :)

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