How can I list directories only in linux?

abefroman · 10-20-2005, 05:34 PM

How can I list directories only in linux?

What would the command be?

itsme86 · 10-20-2005, 05:54 PM

'ls'? You need to be more specific with your question.

trevelluk · 10-20-2005, 05:54 PM

Here's one way:

ls -p | grep "/"

The -p option to ls appends a / character to all directories (this character can never appear in a file name). Grep then filters the resulting information, to only show entries that contain a / character.

The only slight downside of this is that the list you get will have the slash on the end of each line. If this is a problem, you should be able to get rid of it using cut.

itsme86 · 10-20-2005, 06:26 PM

You could try 'tree -d -L 1'

homey · 10-20-2005, 07:32 PM

Here's another one

Code:

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

rsheridan6 · 10-20-2005, 10:30 PM

ls -d */

I just found this out after nearly 3 years of using Linux.

homey · 10-21-2005, 12:55 AM

If you want to include the hidden directories, you may want to try one of these....

Code:

find . -type d -exec ls -d {} \;
or
ls -d .*"/" *"/" 
or 
find . -type d

moranar · 10-27-2005, 02:01 PM

What about listing only directories recursively? Can it be done with just ls? ls -dR doesn't seem to work as I'd like it. It seems that "list recursively" and "list dirs but not contents" clash...

paulsm4 · 10-27-2005, 02:06 PM

Try "du":

Quote:

du
0 ./.mc
20 ./.qt
0 ./bin
0 ./mnt/winxp-main/C
0 ./mnt/winxp-main
0 ./mnt
0 ./.ddd/themes
0 ./.ddd/sessions
36 ./.ddd
0 ./.dia/objects
0 ./.dia/shapes
...

If the left column (directory size) annoys you, you can easily eliminate it with: du|awk '{print $2}'

eddiebaby1023 · 10-29-2005, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by moranar
What about listing only directories recursively? Can it be done with just ls? ls -dR doesn't seem to work as I'd like it. It seems that "list recursively" and "list dirs but not contents" clash...

find() and ls are the way to go for this as homey showed in his first post.

perfect_circle · 10-29-2005, 04:41 PM

Code:

ls -l |grep ^d

lydgate · 10-29-2005, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by moranar
What about listing only directories recursively? Can it be done with just ls? ls -dR doesn't seem to work as I'd like it. It seems that "list recursively" and "list dirs but not contents" clash...

tree -d

amjith · 01-27-2009, 07:59 PM

Check this out:
http://www.amjith.blogspot.com/2005/...-in-linux.html

bajidude · 01-31-2012, 07:53 AM

Code:

ls -ld */

or

ls -ld */ .*/

(from Amjith) is the only single command that works correctly with directories & links to other dirs, including the hidden ones

Code:

ls -p | grep "/"

fails when you have links to other files. I am adding this to my bash

Code:

lsd='ls -ld */ .*/'

thanks !

Andy_Crowd · 01-04-2014, 01:21 PM

Here is inline bash scripts

listing only directories:

Code:

for f in *;do if [[ -d $f  ]]; then echo $f;fi; done;

listing only files:

Code:

for f in *;do if [[ -d $f  ]]; then echo "" > /dev/null ;else echo $f ;fi; done;

listing all:

Code:

for f in *;do if [[ -d $f  ]]; then echo $f; done;