Listing all directories only

anjanesh · 06-19-2006, 01:41 PM

I thought ls -d was the equivalent of DOS's DIR /AD - but its not showing the directories.
Any way to list directories only ?

Thanks

homey · 06-19-2006, 01:50 PM

Code:

find . -type d -exec ls -d {} \;

or

ls -d .*"/" *"/"

or

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

or

ls -al | grep ^d

anjanesh · 06-19-2006, 02:10 PM

Cool ! How come theres no direct option in ls or some other command ? Why this combination methods only ?

homey · 06-19-2006, 02:55 PM

Quote:

How come theres no direct option in ls or some other command ? Why this combination methods only ?

I don't know. It seems that just plain ls -d would work but it doesn't.

chrism01 · 06-20-2006, 01:16 AM

or
ls -1F|grep '/'

nx5000 · 06-20-2006, 03:23 AM

Maybe because in the unix philosophy a directory is also a file. Everything is a file in unix.
alias lsd='ls -la $* | grep ^d'