Linux: list contents of sub directories with given name?

Question

I'm using linux to analyze a windows directory structure. The structure is:

/Documents and settings
  /username1
    /My Documents
    ...
  /username2
    /My Documents
    ...
  ...

What command can I execute so that the contents (and sub folders) of all the "My Documents" directories are listed like:

/Documents and Settings/username1/My Documents/filename
/Documents and Settings/username1/My Documents/subdir/filename
/Documents and Settings/username2/My Documents/filename

Basically there are a ton of users but almost none have anything in their My Documents folder. I just want to find and show the contents of those user's that do have documents.

EDIT: Each "username" directory contains many sub directories. I only want to list the tree below the My Documents folder but do so for all usernames at once.

Solution 1

Just to add to the collection, ls -R doesn't really produce the nice output so I use tree command instead

find "/Documents and settings" -name "My Documents" -exec tree -f -i --noreport {} \;

Solution 2

Combining the first two answers, use find and ls -R:

find "/Documents and settings" -name "My Documents" -exec ls -R {} \;

This will find all of the My Documents directories and list everything underneath them, with full pathnames. You need the quotes since the directory names have spaces in them.

Edit: An explination of how this works. It starts at /Documents and settings, looking for any file or directory that matches My Documents. For each one it finds, it substitutes the path for {} in the ls. The \; signifies the end of the command.

Solution 3

ls -R path_to_your_dir

or

ls -lR path_to_your_dir

for better view

However, best view is achieved with

find path_to_your_dir

NOTE: -R means recursive

Comments

[Dane O'Connor]

see my edit, I only need the tree below each my documents folder. Not the tree below Documents and Settings.

[Dane O'Connor]

see my edit, I only need the tree below each my documents folder. Not the tree below Documents and Settings.

[Dane O'Connor]

What does {} \; mean?

[Dane O'Connor]

that command is throwing: "missing argument to -exec"

[KeithB]

Make sure that you have the \; (backslash semicolon) on there.

[Dane O'Connor]

Ah, once you explained I noticed I didn't have a space between '{}' and '\;'. Perfect. I assume the '\;' is to prevent the shell from expanding ';'?

[Dane O'Connor]

Shoot, this is listing all the contents of Documents and Settings