Show full path to file in terminal
Use readlink
with -e
flag. Not only it gives you full path to file, it also presents real path of the symlinks
$ readlink -e ./out.txt
/home/xieerqi/out.txt
I personally use it in my own scripts whenever it's necessary to get full path of a file
I found it:
sudo apt-get install realpath
Then:
realpath MY_FILE
If you don't know the location of the file use find
command.
find / -name MY_FILE
It will print full path of MY_FILE
starting from /
.
or you can use
find $PWD -name MY_FILE
to search in current directory.
If you know the location of MY_FILE
then go to folder containg MY_FILE
and use
pwd
command to print the full path of MY_FILE
.