Really easy question about ls 2

[Stretchwickster]

I'm trying to display all the entries in my home directory that are directories rather than files. I've tried using ls -d as indicated in the man pages for ls but this just gives me a dot as output. Can anyone help?

 

[RobJordan]

Here are two ways to do this.

ls -F|grep /

or

find ./* -type d -prune

Robert
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[grega]

Or you could even do ls -l | grep ^d

Greg.

 

[olded]

Stretch:

How about writing your own? Give me everything that starts with 'd':

ls -l |awk ' { if($0 ~ /^d/)
print $0 } '

Regards,

Ed
Schaefer

 

[bigoldbulldog]

Don't forget those hidden directories. Note: some have '/' at the end.

ls -la | awk '/^d/{print $9}'
ls -aF | grep /
find .* ./* -type d -prune

Cheers,
ND

 

[Einstein47]

I like to set an alias in my .profile for listing only directories.

ksh:

alias -x lsd='ls -l | grep ^d'

that way you can see all the subdirectories of the current directory by typing lsd

Someone asked a while ago about a command that would accept a parameter that is a specific directory to start from. It was determined that a function would be the best way to handle that.

dir () {
  ls -l $1 | awk '{ if (substr($1,1,1)=="d") {print}}'
}

You could put that in your .profile or .kshrc. However, I think the awk reference could be replaced with grep. Einstein47
(Love is like PI - natural, irrational, endless, and very important.)

 

[art15t]

Robert was the closest with his 'find' but you can even cut that down to: find . -type d

you don't need the ... './*' or the '-prune'


Adam

 

[art15t]

Trust me to open my GOB without thinking!

Mikes option misses directories with a leading '.' and mine gives repeated output.

So.... I had a re-think and mofified Mikes other option. This works a treat!

ls -aF|grep /|tr -d '/'|grep -vw '.'



Adam

 

[toolkit]

Another way:

find . ! -name . -type d -print -prune

Cheers, Neil

 

[MikeLacey]

Neil,

What does the ! do? Is it "not"? Mike
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[toolkit]

Yep