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Bash - list files and directories

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In this short article, we would like to show how to list regular files and directories located under indicated path using Bash.

Note: presented solution lets to list visible and hidden files and directories because of .* and * used in the for loop.

print_directory.sh file:

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#!/bin/bash
​
CURRENT_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &> /dev/null && pwd)
​
cd "$CURRENT_DIR"
​
for i in .* *
do
    if [ -d "$i" ] || [ -f "$i" ]
    then
        [ "$i" = "." ] && continue
        [ "$i" = ".." ] && continue
​
        echo "$i"
    fi
done

Example output:

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.git
README.txt
documents
pictures
print_directory.sh

Directory structure:

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/c/files
    |
    +-- .git/
    +-- documents/
    +-- pictures/
    |    |
    |    +-- pic_1.jpg
    |    +-- pic_2.jpg
    |
    +-- print_directory.sh
    +-- README.txt