How can I print the absolute paths of all files in the directory using a for loop?

I want to find the absolute paths of every file in my current directory

Now, when I tried to just print out all the files inside the directory using

#!/bin/bash
for x in *; do
        echo $x
done

I get:

cd
file1
file1.txt
file2.txt
path
readfile
testfile

which is right, however, when I adapt this to get the paths instead by changing my existing code to

#!/bin/bash
for x in *; do
        echo $PATH
done

I get

    Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk11.0.16_9/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk17.0.4_9/bin:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Windows/system32:/mnt/c/Windows:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation/NVIDIA NvDLISR:/mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/npm:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/:/snap/bin
    /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/lib/wsl/lib:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk11.0.16_9/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk17.0.4_9/bin:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Windows/system32:/mnt/c/Windows:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation/NVIDIA NvDLISR:/mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindoFiles/Amazon Corretto/jdk11.0.16_9/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk17.0.4_9/bin:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Windows/system32:/mnt/c/Windows:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation/NVIDIA NvDLISR:/mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/npm:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/:/snap/bin
   Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk11.0.16_9/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk17.0.4_9/bin:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Windows/system32:/mnt/c/Windows:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation/NVIDIA NvDLISR:/mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/npm:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/:/snap/bin
    /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/lib/wsl/lib:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk11.0.16_9/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk17.0.4_9/bin:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Windows/system32:/mnt/c/Windows:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation/NVIDIA NvDLISR:/mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindoFiles/Amazon Corretto/jdk11.0.16_9/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon Corretto/jdk17.0.4_9/bin:/mnt/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Windows/system32:/mnt/c/Windows:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation/NVIDIA NvDLISR:/mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Roaming/npm:/mnt/c/Users/User/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/:/snap/bin

repeatedly 7 times (which is the number of files that exists in the directory). However, this doesn’t look like an absolute path at all since the file name isn’t even mentioned in the paths of the output.

What should I change to make this work?

>Solution :

How to get full path of a file?

#!/bin/bash
for x in *; do
        readlink -f "$x"
done