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

[Ian Zimmerman]

Brian> Jon wrote:
>> ls -d */

Brian> Excellent.  This is the trick (kludge?) I needed.

Brian> Why does this work and ls -d not work?  It only returns "."
Brian> (current working directory).

Because the -d flag doesn't affect _what_ files are listed, only _how_
to list them (similar to -l etc.) The absence of -d means list
named directories recursively, its presence means list them plainly.

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