command line – How can I generate a list of files with their absolute path in Linux?

If you give find an absolute path to start with, it will print absolute paths. For instance, to find all .htaccess files in the current directory:

find $(pwd) -name .htaccess

or if your shell expands $PWD to the current directory:

find $PWD -name .htaccess

find simply prepends the path it was given to a relative path to the file from that path.

Greg Hewgill also suggested using pwd -P if you want to resolve symlinks in your current directory.

readlink -f filename

gives the full absolute path. but if the file is a symlink, ull get the final resolved name.

Use this for dirs (the / after ** is needed in bash to limit it to directories):

ls -d -1 $PWD/**/

this for files and directories directly under the current directory, whose names contain a .:

ls -d -1 $PWD/*.*

this for everything:

ls -d -1 $PWD/**/*

In bash, ** is recursive if you enable shopt -s globstar.