bashshellpathabsolute

How to retrieve absolute path given relative

Is there a command to retrieve the absolute path given a relative path?

For example I want $line to contain the absolute path of each file in dir ./etc/

find ./ -type f | while read line; do
   echo $line
done
Solution

  • use:

    find "$(pwd)"/ -type f

    to get all files or

    echo "$(pwd)/$line"

    to display full path (if relative path matters to)