How to get full path of a file?

Question

Is there an easy way I can print the full path of file.txt ?

file.txt = /nfs/an/disks/jj/home/dir/file.txt

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Answer 1

Create a function like the below (echoes the absolute path of a file with pwd and adds the file at the end of the path:

abspath() { echo $(pwd "$1")/"$1"; }

Now you can just find any file path:

abspath myfile.ext