[clug] list only directories

[Andrew Janke]

ls -d */

?

a

PS: I suspect the difference between directories and directory entries
is tripping you up..

On 20 November 2013 16:22, Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info> wrote:
> Dear Clug,
>
> To list only directories I have a one line script ~/bin/lsd [1]
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ARG="${1:-.}"
> \ls ${ARG} | while read a; do if [[ -d ${ARG}/${a} ]]; then echo ${a}; fi;
> done
>
> so if i only want to see directories, that's what I see
>
> I've had it or something like it for years. Never given it much thought,
> but it strikes me as really quite odd that ls, having 16536 different
> options doesn't have one for just show me things of this type. Maybe I just
> missed it? Reading manpages in depth is pretty painful.
>
> Do you good and talented people all do something similar? Are you doing
> better? Have I missed a trick?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> [1] it's called lsd as in ls for d - directories and in homage to the quip
> about the two things that came out of Berkeley in the late 60s or early
> 70s, but has nothing whatever to do with ratpoison.
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