To list only the directory

[Swosti Dipan Pal]

Hi,

Anyone can help me in getting the command to list only directory. I tried the command ls -d. However, it will only list the "." only.

Cheers,
-Biswa

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

You mean, to make a list of all the subdirectories of the current directory? How about

find . -type d -maxdepth 1

[Swosti Dipan Pal]

Thanks so much.

However, the maxdepth isn't working.showing the following error. It's working upto find . -type d

bash-2.03$ find . -type d -maxdepth 1
find: bad option -maxdepth
find: path-list predicate-list

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

-maxdepth is a feature of GNU find (Linux) and the BSD-ish find on Mac OS X; it may not be POSIX, so some older "find" implementations won't have it. What OS are you using?

[Frank Carver]

or maybe something like:

ls -l |awk '/^d/{print $9}'

It does the equavalent of what a human might do:

generate a full-details file listing
select only those lines which start with d (for directory)
then only show the ninth (filename) field

Pretty much every linux or unix system has awk, and its a great little tool.

[Anand Hariharan]

How about

ls -d */

[Swosti Dipan Pal]

It's sun OS 5.8.

Cheers,
-Biswa

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Originally posted by Anand Hariharan:
How about

ls -d */

I like that one.

[Swosti Dipan Pal]

Thanks you so much !

Can I know the source where we can get these tips ?

Cheers,
-Biswa
[ January 26, 2007: Message edited by: Biswamohan Routray ]