What is Linux for OpenVMS DIRECTORY/NOHEADING/NOTRAILING?

Question

OpenVMS DCL command DIRECTORY/NOHEADING displays just the full file name including path info in a single-column format without any of the normal headings for a directory listing. The /NOTRAILING switch removes the normal trailing total info that is displayed.

What is Linux for OpenVMS DIR/NOHEADING/TRAILING?

This example directory command from MYHOME:[MYDIR.SUBDIR] shows the complete file names including path info with no other info like size, date, headings and totals:

$ dir/noheading/notrailing
MYHOME:[MYDIR.SUBDIR]ABC.C;3
MYHOME:[MYDIR.SUBDIR]ABC.OBJ;3
MYHOME:[MYDIR.SUBDIR]ABC.EXE;3

Answer 1

There is no ls command which will show full path information, because VMS and Unix are very conceptually different here. Files are data in the filesystem and filenames are effectively pointers to that data, not containers for the data. So, out of context, the names don't really have path information.

Also, by default, ls doesn't show any header or footer information. It might be that ls -1, which shows all of the files in the current directory in a single column is what you want. (Or, to carry what I said in the first paragraph, you could try ls -1i, which will give you the inode number of each file — a sort of unique identifier for the actual data in the filesystem. But you probably don't really want that.)

Alternately, you could try something other than ls:

find $(pwd) -maxdepth 1

will print out all of the filenames in the current working directory, one per line, with the current working directory prepended. )Add -mindepth 1 too, to leave out the directory itself, if need be.) Maybe that's what you want?