[clug] list only directories

[Scott Ferguson]

On 20/11/13 17:31, Andrew Janke wrote:
> ls -d */
> 
> ?
> 
> a

ls -F | grep /


> 
> 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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