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I need to create a manifest of thousands of files and their directory paths recursively.

Here is an example of how i need the manifest to output

This_is_an_example/of_how/i_want_to_display/absolute_paths/
examplefiles.md5
examplefiles.txt
examplefile.wav

This_is_an_example/of_how/i_want_to_display/absolute_paths/part_2/
examplefiles.md5
examplefiles.txt
examplefile.wav

the command tree -fai > manifest.txt gets me close to what i need but it does not create a line break after the absolute path.

secondly i would like to output sequential files in a subdirectory as 1 single line input for example

This_is_an_example/of_how/i_want_to_display/absolute_paths/part_3/
test_file_here_0000001.dpx
test_file_here_0000002.dpx
test_file_here_0000003.dpx
test_file_here_0000004.dpx

displayed as below instead

 This_is_an_example/of_how/i_want_to_display/absolute_paths/part_4/
 test_file_here_[0000000-0000004].dpx

From man:

 -R, --recursive
 list subdirectories recursively

Try,

ls -R /path/to/dir

more closely,

ll -R /path/to/dir | awk '$1!="total"print $NF'

find . -print | perl -pe 'a=$_; chomp $a; -d $a or s:.*/::'

Since you want to find directories and then list their contents, why not use find for it:

find /path/to/dir -type d -exec bash -O dotglob -O nullglob -c '
 for pathname do
 header=0
 for filename in "$pathname"/*; do
 if [ ! -d "$filename" ]; then
 if [ "$header" -eq 0 ]; then
 printf "%s/n" "$pathname%/"
 header=1
 fi
 printf "%sn" "$filename##*/"
 fi
 done
 [ "$header" -eq 1 ] && printf "n"
 done' bash +

This finds all directories in or under the given directory path. It feeds the pathnames of all these directories to a bash script.

The bash script will iterate over each directory, printing the directory pathname as a header and listing non-directory entries present in that directory. At the end, if at least one non-directory file was found in the directory, an extra newline is outputted.

Directories that are empty or that only contains directories are not listed.

For a directory structure such as

/dir
`-- a
 |-- b
 | `-- c
 | |-- .hidden_file
 | `-- file
 `-- file

This would produce the following output:

/dir/a/
file

/dir/a/b/c/
.hidden_file
file