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From: dragon@cc.gatech.edu (Musashi)
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
Date: 14 Jul 1995 01:58:30 -0400
Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Tech
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Message-ID: <3u5126$sjg@felix.cc.gatech.edu>
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Jay J Oh <OHJ%CSCADPS@mhs.elan.af.mil> wrote:
>
>
>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.
(this is assuming a bourne shell derivative)
for i in *; do if [ -d $i ]; then echo $i; fi; done
...just 'cause no one else posted it,
Musashi
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