Java 8 Files.walk not returning all Paths

Question

Here is the method

public List<Path> listAllPaths() throws IOException {
         Files.walk(Paths.get("/tmp")).forEach(e -> System.out.println(e.toString()));
        return Files.walk(Paths.get(filePath)).collect(Collectors.toList());
    }

when I execute this method, I see only /tmp printed and returned I was hoping to see all subdirectories and files inside

Javadocs says

"Return a Stream that is lazily populated with Path by walking the file tree rooted at a given starting file. The file tree is traversed depth-first, the elements in the stream are Path objects that are obtained as if by resolving the relative path against start."

Answer 1

That's a symbolic link, not a real path:

Path p = Paths.get("/tmp");
System.out.println(Files.isSymbolicLink(p)); // returns true

The real path is /private/tmp

you can do an

ls -l 

and see that some of the folders are owned by _mbsetupuser user.

Also you can walk the symbolic links as suggest in the comments via:

 Files.walk(Paths.get("/tmp"), FileVisitOption.FOLLOW_LINKS)