Can ls be made to only list directories?

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <13343 at hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0178a at prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM) writes:
> in article <10914:Sep306:06:3490 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) says:
> > In article <1990Sep3.032037.487 at iwarp.intel.com> merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
     [ `echo foo`  is always better expressed as just  foo ]
> > Not always. When echo is built in and the shell is sensible, `echo
> > something` is hardly an efficiency loss, and it's sometimes useful for
> > playing with the spacing. (Consider csh's word breaks.)
> I thought so at first too, but don't the backquotes launch a process?

Backquotes don't have to fork any more than output redirection does.

---Dan