Listing only directories in UNIX

Question

i want to list only the directories in specified path(ls don't have such option). Also, can this be done with a single line command?

Answer 1

Try this ls -d */ to list directories within the current directory

Answer 2

Try this:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

Answer 3

find specifiedpath -type d

If you don't want to recurse in subdirectories, you can do this instead:

find specifiedpath -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1

Note that "dot" directories (whose name start with .) will be listed too; but not the special directories . nor ... If you don't want "dot" directories, you can just grep them out:

find specifiedpath -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | grep -v '^\.'

Answer 4

The answer will depend on your shell.

In zsh, for example, you can do the following:

echo *(/)

And all directories within the current working directory will be displayed.

See man zshexpn for more information.

An alternative approach would be to use find(1), which should work on most Unix flavours:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print  

find(1) has many uses, so I'd definitely recommend man find.

Answer 5

You can use ls -d */ or tree -d

Another solution would be globbing but this depends on the shell you are using and if globbing for directories is supported.

For example ZSH:

zsh # ls *(/)