Can ls be made to only list directories?

[Alex Martelli]

shwake at raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:

>Create a shell script - call it dirs - then run "dirs *"

>for i in `file $* | fgrep directory | sed 's/\([^:]*\):.*/\1/'`
>do
>	/bin/echo "$i \c"	# feel free to modify for built-in echo
>done
>echo

Just a little observation - 's/:.*//' seems a tad simpler than the
sed command suggested (I use it all the time for similar purposes,
e.g. "file * | fgrep text | sed 's/:.*//' | xargs ls -l", interactively,
to long-list text-files only).  Either will give problems on filenames 
with embedded colons, but my suggestion's a bit easier to fix - just
place a tab between the colon and the dot.

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