In Unix, how do I get a recursive directory listing?

If you want a recursive directory listing in Unix, one of the following may be useful:

If you're looking for a wildcard pattern that will match all .c files in and below a certain directory, you won't find one, but you can use: some-command `find . -name '*.c' -print` Replace some-command with the command you want to run.

Note: This information comes from the Unix FAQ, which is posted regularly to the Usenet newsgroups comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shell. You can obtain it by FTP from rtfm.mit.edu in the /pub/usenet directory, and on the web at: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/

Also see:

• In Unix, how do I list the files in a directory?
• In Unix, how do I determine my current working directory?
• In Unix, how do I create a new directory?