Recursive sorted file list (Linux)

Question

I want to recurse through a directory, including in subdirectories and subdirectories of those and so on, printing out only file names (no directories). I would also like to have the results on a new line each and sorted.

Please note that ls -LR or ls -xLR doesn't work as ls formats the result into a sort of table.

How can it be achieved?

Answer 1

Go to the directory you want to search in, and run:

find . -type f -exec basename {} \; | sort

Sorted by name, just filenames (no paths), and just files (no directories).

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Details:

• find works recursively, by default.
• -type f will print only files, not directories.
• -exec basename runs basename on the results (so paths are not printed).
• sort will sort the results (D'Oh!)