find printing full paths (was: filutils 4.1)

[Bob Proulx]

James Youngman wrote:
> The Wanderer wrote:
> >For the little it's worth, I also find myself wanting to do something
> >like this from time to time, usually in a context in which find is not a
> >satisfactory alternative - or, at best, in which it would be awkward and
> >potentially difficult to construct a find command which would match all
> >of the desired files and no others.

Could you give an example?  The find command has a rich feature set
and I am having a hard time imagining a case such as you describe.

> >(For that matter, I've just scoured the man page to find, and I do
> >not see an option to make it print the absolute path to the file
> >rather than the path relative to the directory from which find was
> >invoked.)

Does this work for you?

  find $PWD

> For the record, suppose the list of things you wish to search is in
> the shell variable dirlist.   You can then do it like this:
> 
> $ dirlist="foo bar baz"
> $ find $( for dir in $dirlist; do ( cd $dir && pwd ) ; done )    -print
> /tmp/foo
> /tmp/foo/29452
> ...

That is cool.  But it seems more complicated than needed.  Is that
simply to avoid printing the current directory?  I feel certain I am
missing a critical item here.

  find $PWD/*

Bob