On 19 Oct, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 19 Oct, Colin Marquardt wrote about "Re: can I list just the
> directories, executables?"
>> * jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just
>>> directories?
>> See? The option -d is it.
> To list just the directories in the current directory you can do
> find . -type d -maxdepth 1
> or you can feed the output to ls to format it better
> find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs ls -d
> and add other args to ls as needed.
Or if one absolutely insists on using ls one can do
ls -F | grep '/'
the -F option adds / to the end of the dirnames, * after exe's, @ after
symlinks - and probably some more that I've forgotten... (| for named pipes?)
>>> Also, is there a command that will list executable files.
>> If your shell is the bash (as I suppose), just press the TAB key
>> twice. You´ll get a big list of executables in your path. (You can
>> see what your path is by typing "echo $PATH" (without the quotes).
> Again find can help here:
> find . -type f -perm +1
Per above:
ls -F | grep '*'
it is a bit unvieldy if you want to use the output for something else
since it adds that extra character to the name...
/Michael
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