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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16697 comp.unix.programmer:27206 comp.unix.questions:66918 comp.unix.shell:23775 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!sun4nl!phcoms4.seri.philips.nl!TISP05 From: J.M.Burgers@nl.cis.philips.com (J.M. Burgers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: A Unix command to obtain directory name only Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 16:53:12 GMT Organization: Philips Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3uof3h$lsk@phcoms4.seri.philips.nl> References: <3tk3dc$4ml@rcp6.elan.af.mil> <DBvnro.oy@sneaky.lonestar.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.144.85.59 X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #2.1 gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt) 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. > >Try: > > ls -d */. > > Gordon L. Burditt > sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon Try file * | grep dir Greetings hans