Get the List of Files and Directories Recursively in Linux

Simple bash Script to get the list of files and directories inside the specified path

Sometimes we want to get the list of files and directories recursively, but it is tedious to navigate each directory to check all the files. Here are the simple commands which will help you to check all the files and directories available in a specific path.

$ find -L "/path/to/directory" -type f

If you don’t want to search in specific directory then you can also restrict your search result from below command.

Exclude specific directories

$ find -L "/path/to/directory" -type f -and -not -path "*/.git*"

In my example I have excluded .git directory from my listing criteria.

Shell Script to list files recursively

checkfile.sh

#!/bin/sh
dir=""
if [ -d "$1" ]; then
dir=$1;
else
echo "Please directory path as a argument."
exit 0
fi
files="$(find -L "$dir" -type f -and -not -path "*/.git*")"
echo "$files" | while read file; do
     echo "$file"
done

Uses:

sh checkfile.sh /path/to/directory

Few related Article
https://techieroop.com/category/scripting/
https://github.com/roopendra/devops/tree/master/bash_scripting