Recursively list all files in a directory including files in symlink directories

Question

I have my directory /dir inside which there are 3 symlinks to other directories

 /dir/dir11, /dir/dir12, and /dir/dir13.

I want to list all the files in dir including those in 

dir11, dir12 and dir13.

To be more generic, i would like to list all files including those within the directories which are symlinks. find ., ls -R, etc

Answer 1

The -L option to ls will do the work. It dereferences the symbolic links.

So your command has to be:

ls -LR

You can also do this using

find -follow

The -follow option finds the following symbolic links to directories.

On Mac OS X use

find -L

as -follow has been deprecated.

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