Newbie: How to loop round sub-directories

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I want a bit of shell script that will let me loop round all the sub-directories in a directory (i.e. ignoring any ordinary files in that directory). Let's say I just want to echo the names of the sub-directories. This sounds like it should be pretty easy - but not for me, it isn't!

All help gratefully received.

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for dir in */
do
   : whatever with "$dir"
done
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Another way:

for i in `find . -type d`; do
  echo $i
done
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...which will fail if any directory names contain whitespace.

It will also go beyond the current directory and search within subdirectories.

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Thanks People!

cfajohnson's solution is pretty much exactly what I want.

I'm sure tongelja's solution will come in handy some other time.

Thanks again to you both.