[buug] Question: getting ls to only display entries that are directories

Jon McClintock jammer at weak.org
Fri Aug 16 10:15:28 PDT 2002


On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:07:51PM -0500, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> 
> hi 
> 
> I'm sure this is easy.
> 
> I'd like to know if there is a native parameter to 'ls'
> that just displays which entries are themselves directories.
> I've tried to RTFM, but somehow I just can't grok it.
> 
> The command I use now is 'ls -al | grep ^d'.  Surely
> there is something better?

find . -type d -maxdepth 1

or, simpler:

ls -d */

-Jon




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