Why does the file name needs to be repeated?

If I do

augtool --noautoload --transform "sshd incl /etc/ssh/sshd_config" ls "/files/etc/ssh/sshd_config/"

then I get the tree structure of /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but here I have written the file path twice, where the last time it is prefixed with /files.

Question

Would it be possible to do the same, but only specify the file path ones?