type discriminating directory listing

Blair P. Houghton bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Fri May 12 17:49:19 AEST 1989


In article <8905110644.AA01902 at rodan.acs.syr.edu> jdpeek at rodan.acs.syr.edu writes:
>In article <1529 at cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs at logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
>> what would be the command for getting a partial directory listings
>> of only the subdirectories and symbolic-links ?
>
>When you feed BSD "ls" into a pipe, it doesn't print the filenames in
>columns;

Not to the real point, but if you invoke it as "ls -C" it will force
the columnar output even if it's not to a tty.

				--Blair
				  "My fave:  ls -RFC
				   I never:  ls -RFTM"



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