> >> Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just
> >> directories?
> >
> > Do a
> >
> > man ls
> >
> > There, press / (for searching in the manual).
> >
> > Type -d (the text to search).
> > Type n twice (for next occurence of the searchtext).
> >
> > See? The option -d is it.
>
> I don't think this is what is wanted. -d just keeps ls from listing the
> conents of the directory when you specify the directory name on the
> command line.
>
> 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.
I have
alias dir='ls -al | grep ^d | grep -v grep'
in my /etc/profile. I like it. :-)
Ookhoi
