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#! rnews 1485 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:17555 comp.unix.admin:30251 comp.unix.bsd:16666 comp.unix.programmer:26815 comp.unix.questions:66337 comp.unix.shell:23423 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.cerf.net!nic.cerf.net!paulp From: paulp@nic.cerf.net (Paul Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: A Unix command to obtain directory name only Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Date: 7 Jul 1995 23:14:02 GMT Organization: http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/useless.html Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3tkf3q$477@news.cerf.net> References: <3tk3dc$4ml@rcp6.elan.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net Usenet is not your personal resource: *please* do not crosspost to every group you can think of with questions like this. In article <3tk3dc$4ml@rcp6.elan.af.mil> Jay J Oh <OHJ%CSCADPS@mhs.elan.af.mil> writes: >I am trying to invoke a unix command to obtain only directory names >listing for a given path. I tried using 'ls -d *', but this includes >files also. I also tried 'find -type d . -print' but this command >recursively list all the subdirectories, which I don't want. find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print -PSP -- "I would rather go for having a lobotomy , for the jerk. I think that actually when he has part of his brain removed, that he will make more sense than he does, now." -- Andrew Beckwith, soc.culture.usa