How to make a direct admin-visible URL to a private file in: sites/default/private/ Say I have a file in sites/default/private/archive/20160221.csv

How do I make a direct full URL to this file for admins to download.

I looked at file_create_url but am not sure what it would require to be passed in:

https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21file.inc/function/file_create_url/7
Use file_entity_download_uri() in view php field

function file_entity_download_uri($file) {
  $uri = array(
    'path' =&gt; "file/{$file-&gt;fid}/download",
    'options' =&gt; array(),
  );
  if (!variable_get('file_entity_allow_insecure_download', FALSE)) {
    $uri['options']['query']['token'] = file_entity_get_download_token($file);
  }
  return $uri;
}