ls -d does not work

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi falks,

I need to dispaly a list of only directories .
As it written in the manual ,the command to do it is 'ls -d'.
When i issue 'ls -d' i'm getting:

tornado.orca.ent:DB10g :/home/oracle/Create_Database > ls -d
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Is anyone have any idea why id does not display directories ,or maybe there is another switch of 'ls' to do it?

Thanks in advance,
Nir

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Hey druuna,

Thanks for your reply.

ls -d * is not good for me because it displays files and directories.
I need to display directories excluding files.

Any more ideas?

Nir

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No, that won't do it.

The command you're looking for is
ls -l /my/dir | grep '^d'

so you were almost there.... Obviously you can omit /my/dir to get a listing for the current directory.

Cheers
ZB

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Hey falks,

Thanks a lot!!
Zazzybob - your suggestion was the closer to what i was looking for.
Finally ,i used the following:

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

Regards,

Nir

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i must admit, my skills with awk are minimal, but doesn't this make more sense?

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

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No problem :wink: - find is definitely the best solution to this problem, although the -maxdepth option is not portable to all flavours of UNIX.

Cheers
ZB

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Hi,
better and simply is

ls -d */
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You can use the -p option of ls command which marks directories with a slash at end.

ls -p|sed -n 's#/$##p'
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without sed: