Make ls print path

Sometimes I'd like to do something like:

$ less $(ls email/inbox/cur | tail -n 1)

but that fails, because ls prints only the "basename".
I can't find an option to make ls print the path!

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Salve Håkedal

Re: Make ls print path

Salve Håkedal wrote:
> Sometimes I'd like to do something like:
>
> $ less $(ls email/inbox/cur | tail -n 1)
>
> but that fails, because ls prints only the "basename".
> I can't find an option to make ls print the path!
>

Use ~+ as, for example, in...

ls -d ~+/bin/*


Janis

Re: Make ls print path

On 2007-09-15, Salve Håkedal wrote:
> Sometimes I'd like to do something like:
>
> $ less $(ls email/inbox/cur | tail -n 1)
>
> but that fails, because ls prints only the "basename".
> I can't find an option to make ls print the path!

less "$(ls -d email/inbox/cur/* | tail -n 1)"

Or (saves two external commands):

set -- email/inbox/cur/*
shift $(( $# - 1 ))
less "$1"

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Re: Make ls print path

2007-09-15, 16:51(-05), Salve Håkedal:
> Sometimes I'd like to do something like:
>
> $ less $(ls email/inbox/cur | tail -n 1)
>
> but that fails, because ls prints only the "basename".
> I can't find an option to make ls print the path!

With zsh:

less email/inbox/cur/*([-1])

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Stéphane

Re: Make ls print path

On 2007-09-15, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2007-09-15, Salve Håkedal wrote:
>> Sometimes I'd like to do something like:
>>
>> $ less $(ls email/inbox/cur | tail -n 1)
>>
>> but that fails, because ls prints only the "basename".
>> I can't find an option to make ls print the path!
>
> less "$(ls -d email/inbox/cur/* | tail -n 1)"
>
> Or (saves two external commands):
>
> set -- email/inbox/cur/*
> shift $(( $# - 1 ))
> less "$1"
>
Thank you. I had not understood that that could be used with the file
name (= "basename")! (That is not really clear form the man page, is
it?)

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Salve Håkedal

Re: Make ls print path

On 2007-09-15, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> Salve Håkedal wrote:
>> Sometimes I'd like to do something like:
>>
>> $ less $(ls email/inbox/cur | tail -n 1)
>>
>> but that fails, because ls prints only the "basename".
>> I can't find an option to make ls print the path!
>>
>
> Use ~+ as, for example, in...
>
> ls -d ~+/bin/*
>
Fine! Thank you.

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Salve Håkedal