Directory Structure List - Please help!

[billdvldog]

Our Unix admin recently left. I've been asked to list the directory structure of one of the directories on our Unix server. Is there a way to list only directories and their subdirectories in Unix?

For example, I'd like a list like the following:

dir1
subdir1
subdir11
subdir2
dir2
subdir3
etc, etc...

Thanks in advance!

Bill

 

[z28sarefun]

ls -R

Check out the manpage for other details (man ls).

HTH
Brian

 

[Mike042]

To take Brian's post on a step further, I have found the following useful (but not perfect) in displaying a directory structure (NB no files are listed).
Eg for /usr :

ls -lR /usr | egrep "^d|^/"

I hope that helps you.

Mike

 

[billdvldog]

Thanks. I looked at the manpage for ls and tried to run an ls -RdF to recursively get subdirectories, get only directory names (not their contents) and to mark the directory names with a trailing slash (since there doesn't seem to be a way to list only directories, not regular files). It doesn't seem to want to print subdirectories. I'm not sure why. For example, I have a directory called "neto" that has subdirectories "gif" and "envwatch". When I execute "ls -RdF neto" from the command prompt, it simply returns "neto/".

Any ideas? I really appreciate the help!

 

[billdvldog]

Thanks Mike! I modified your command a bit and it worked like a charm:

ls -lFR /usr | egrep "^d|^/"

Returns results like:

/usr/Summaries
/usr/Summaries/Agreements
/usr/Summaries/Agreements/Dir1
/usr/Summaries/Agreements/Dir2

Thanks again!

Bill

 

[mrn]

see thread822-883828

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

 

[iribach]

man find

find . -type d (-ls)