Listing files / directories with full path of query
December 8, 2023
Have you ever noticed that ls sometimes provides relative path, while other times uses full path?
$ ls ~/.config/nixpkgs
config.nix
$ ls ~/.config/nixpkgs/* # append wildcard suffix
/home/wilson/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix
The program ls actually is unaware of the trailing * because the current shell expanded the operator then passed the list of files. From the perspective of ls, the two commands below are the same.
$ ls ~/.config/nixpkgs/*
/home/wilson/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix
$ ls ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix
/home/wilson/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix