Long directory listings throughout directory tree.... 2

[MyBN]

I'm trying to get a long listing of all directories in the directory tree, but using option d as listed in the man pages does no good.

ls -d <- does not work properly for me

The best alternative solution I found to do this job is using find and grep as follows...

find . -type d -exec ls -l {} \; | grep "^d"

is there a better way to this?

 

[motoslide]

I'm not sure this will improve what you already have, but I don't think you need to pipe your results through "grep" if you modify your find command like so:

find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;

 

[Annihilannic]

No need to exec ls either, most finds have a -ls option.

[tt]find . -type d -ls[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[PHV]

Annihilannic, how do you pass the -ld options to the ls command with your suggestion ?

 

[chipperMDW]

The -ls "action" in find lists a file in `ls -dils' format. It's just built into find.

(Compare to the -print action, which just prints the name.)

 

[motoslide]

That must be an option of "find" that isn't on all releases. In SCO OpenServer (which may not be "BEST", but is pretty damn reliable and "good"), I get this:

$ find . -type d -ls
find: incomplete statement

 

[Annihilannic]

Yep, I use SCO too, which is why I said "most".

Annihilannic.