Can ls be made to only list directories?
Jay A. Konigsberg
jak at sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
Mon Sep 3 00:18:03 AEST 1990
>In article <90243.151817SML108 at psuvm.psu.edu> SML108 at psuvm.psu.edu (Scott the Great) writes:
>As the subject asks, is there a set of options which will limit
>ls to listing directories?
A simple solution is to pipe the output of 'ls -l' through
'grep' and anchor the leading "d" in "drwxrwxrwx" to the
begining of the string.
ls -l | grep "^d"
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