Is there any option with 'ls' command that I see only the directories?












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Sometimes, I need to check only the directories not files. Is there any option with the command ls? Or is there any utility for doing that?



EDIT: I'm using Mac OS X, and ls -d gives me . even though I have directories.






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    Can somebody explain why ls -d gives only . and why the */ must be added to the end to make it work?

    – cwd
    Oct 4 '11 at 2:49






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    @cwd If you don't specify any files, ls defaults to .. And -d means don't print the directory's contents, print the directory itself.

    – Mikel
    May 23 '12 at 14:52








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    @cwd try using ls -p it shows the / after the directory names. So */ is just a pattern which is matched against the directory name and / combo.

    – Pitt
    Oct 24 '12 at 15:55
















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Sometimes, I need to check only the directories not files. Is there any option with the command ls? Or is there any utility for doing that?



EDIT: I'm using Mac OS X, and ls -d gives me . even though I have directories.






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    Can somebody explain why ls -d gives only . and why the */ must be added to the end to make it work?

    – cwd
    Oct 4 '11 at 2:49






  • 2





    @cwd If you don't specify any files, ls defaults to .. And -d means don't print the directory's contents, print the directory itself.

    – Mikel
    May 23 '12 at 14:52








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    @cwd try using ls -p it shows the / after the directory names. So */ is just a pattern which is matched against the directory name and / combo.

    – Pitt
    Oct 24 '12 at 15:55














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Sometimes, I need to check only the directories not files. Is there any option with the command ls? Or is there any utility for doing that?



EDIT: I'm using Mac OS X, and ls -d gives me . even though I have directories.






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Sometimes, I need to check only the directories not files. Is there any option with the command ls? Or is there any utility for doing that?



EDIT: I'm using Mac OS X, and ls -d gives me . even though I have directories.






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    Can somebody explain why ls -d gives only . and why the */ must be added to the end to make it work?

    – cwd
    Oct 4 '11 at 2:49






  • 2





    @cwd If you don't specify any files, ls defaults to .. And -d means don't print the directory's contents, print the directory itself.

    – Mikel
    May 23 '12 at 14:52








  • 1





    @cwd try using ls -p it shows the / after the directory names. So */ is just a pattern which is matched against the directory name and / combo.

    – Pitt
    Oct 24 '12 at 15:55














  • 3





    Can somebody explain why ls -d gives only . and why the */ must be added to the end to make it work?

    – cwd
    Oct 4 '11 at 2:49






  • 2





    @cwd If you don't specify any files, ls defaults to .. And -d means don't print the directory's contents, print the directory itself.

    – Mikel
    May 23 '12 at 14:52








  • 1





    @cwd try using ls -p it shows the / after the directory names. So */ is just a pattern which is matched against the directory name and / combo.

    – Pitt
    Oct 24 '12 at 15:55








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Can somebody explain why ls -d gives only . and why the */ must be added to the end to make it work?

– cwd
Oct 4 '11 at 2:49





Can somebody explain why ls -d gives only . and why the */ must be added to the end to make it work?

– cwd
Oct 4 '11 at 2:49




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2





@cwd If you don't specify any files, ls defaults to .. And -d means don't print the directory's contents, print the directory itself.

– Mikel
May 23 '12 at 14:52







@cwd If you don't specify any files, ls defaults to .. And -d means don't print the directory's contents, print the directory itself.

– Mikel
May 23 '12 at 14:52






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@cwd try using ls -p it shows the / after the directory names. So */ is just a pattern which is matched against the directory name and / combo.

– Pitt
Oct 24 '12 at 15:55





@cwd try using ls -p it shows the / after the directory names. So */ is just a pattern which is matched against the directory name and / combo.

– Pitt
Oct 24 '12 at 15:55










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I know there is already a selected answer, but you can get the requested behavior with just ls:



ls -ld -- */


(Note that the '--' marks the end of parameters, preventing folder names beginning with a hyphen from being interpreted as further command options.)



This will list all the non-hidden (unless you configure your shell's globs to expand them) directories in the current working directory where it is run (note that it also includes symbolic links to directories). To get all the subdirectories of some other folder, just try:



ls -ld /path/to/directory/*/


Note that the -l is optional.






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  • 4





    Nice. I never considered that directories have an implicit / on the end--but now that I see you answer it makes sense. After all, tab-completion always adds it.

    – gvkv
    Sep 6 '10 at 3:46











  • -d for dir, -l for long format. whats the purpose of -- ?

    – Dineshkumar
    Apr 17 '15 at 15:03













  • While this looks short and works for most cases, one may not want to use this approach when a true directory is needed, not a directory's symlink. So find is actually a good choice in that case.

    – biocyberman
    Jan 31 '17 at 20:59













  • find also has the advantage when the number of directories exceeds the maximum argument length.

    – Steven D
    Feb 1 '17 at 9:31











  • Working backwards, I just realised you can simply ignore anything with an extension: ls -alhF --ignore=*.*. Not sure how well this would handle 'hidden' folders, i.e. .myHiddenFolder

    – Timmah
    Nov 1 '17 at 0:46



















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No, but a simple find command will do it:



find . -type d -depth 1


or grep



ls -F | grep /


You could then alias either one if necessary.






share|improve this answer





















  • 6





    On Ubuntu 14.04 it was -maxdepth 1. Also find wanted me to flip the order: find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

    – Brad Cupit
    Aug 28 '15 at 14:33











  • That ls -F | grep / solution works wonders! It seems to be the only one I can get to work on my FreeBSD machine. I think using Fish means that anything with */ may not work?

    – cjm
    Jul 27 '16 at 4:38











  • I've never worked with Fish so I'm not sure about that but the -F option can work wonders.

    – gvkv
    Jul 27 '16 at 13:21



















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I like the tree utility to get an overview over the directory structure. It's available in MacPorts and all Linux distributions I've tried.



tree -d -L 2


That would show all directories, two levels deep.






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    I also needed to view hidden directories so have modified the suggestion above to fit my needs



    ls -ad */ .*





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      The easiest way is to type the following command. This works across most UNIX and Linux platforms and versions. You can skip the -F if you want, but it is the argument that adds the / to the end of the directory name. The -C argument captures only directory names - all of them in the current directory. If you want to see only directories and subdirectories in the current path, simply add the -R argument (ls -CFR). 



      # ls -CF
      
/dir1  /dir2  /dir3  /beaches  /Work  /Other





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      • In all ls implementations I know and in the POSIX specification of ls, -C is to output in columns, not to skip non-directory files. In your example, the / are printed before the file names, which no ls implementation would do. With -F, / is appended to the file name for directory files.

        – Stéphane Chazelas
        Jun 21 '18 at 16:15





















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      I think ls has a bug on Mac OS X. A workaround is to use grep... ls -l / | grep "^d"






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        It's nice to know I'm not the only person that uses the grep "^d" hack

        – Michael Mrozek♦
        Sep 6 '10 at 2:10








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        As far as I know, the behavior he describes is not a bug and is the same if one is using GNU ls. The -d option displays the listing for the directory and not the contents. To see why this can be useful see the difference between: ls -l /home and ls -dl /home

        – Steven D
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      • Carats aren't special to the shell. You can just use ls -l / | grep ^d. If you are going to use quotes, since you don't need parameter expansion, make them single quotes. ls -l / | grep '^d'. Yes, I'm a pedant. But really, do this. :)

        – Wildcard
        Nov 1 '16 at 1:08



















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      $ ls -p | grep /


      The -p flag will make ls add a slash (`/') after each filename if that file is a directory.






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        ls -G


        this will show your directories in blue






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          Do you see only the directories when using this command ?

          – don_crissti
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        I know there is already a selected answer, but you can get the requested behavior with just ls:



        ls -ld -- */


        (Note that the '--' marks the end of parameters, preventing folder names beginning with a hyphen from being interpreted as further command options.)



        This will list all the non-hidden (unless you configure your shell's globs to expand them) directories in the current working directory where it is run (note that it also includes symbolic links to directories). To get all the subdirectories of some other folder, just try:



        ls -ld /path/to/directory/*/


        Note that the -l is optional.






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          Nice. I never considered that directories have an implicit / on the end--but now that I see you answer it makes sense. After all, tab-completion always adds it.

          – gvkv
          Sep 6 '10 at 3:46











        • -d for dir, -l for long format. whats the purpose of -- ?

          – Dineshkumar
          Apr 17 '15 at 15:03













        • While this looks short and works for most cases, one may not want to use this approach when a true directory is needed, not a directory's symlink. So find is actually a good choice in that case.

          – biocyberman
          Jan 31 '17 at 20:59













        • find also has the advantage when the number of directories exceeds the maximum argument length.

          – Steven D
          Feb 1 '17 at 9:31











        • Working backwards, I just realised you can simply ignore anything with an extension: ls -alhF --ignore=*.*. Not sure how well this would handle 'hidden' folders, i.e. .myHiddenFolder

          – Timmah
          Nov 1 '17 at 0:46
















        73














        I know there is already a selected answer, but you can get the requested behavior with just ls:



        ls -ld -- */


        (Note that the '--' marks the end of parameters, preventing folder names beginning with a hyphen from being interpreted as further command options.)



        This will list all the non-hidden (unless you configure your shell's globs to expand them) directories in the current working directory where it is run (note that it also includes symbolic links to directories). To get all the subdirectories of some other folder, just try:



        ls -ld /path/to/directory/*/


        Note that the -l is optional.






        share|improve this answer





















        • 4





          Nice. I never considered that directories have an implicit / on the end--but now that I see you answer it makes sense. After all, tab-completion always adds it.

          – gvkv
          Sep 6 '10 at 3:46











        • -d for dir, -l for long format. whats the purpose of -- ?

          – Dineshkumar
          Apr 17 '15 at 15:03













        • While this looks short and works for most cases, one may not want to use this approach when a true directory is needed, not a directory's symlink. So find is actually a good choice in that case.

          – biocyberman
          Jan 31 '17 at 20:59













        • find also has the advantage when the number of directories exceeds the maximum argument length.

          – Steven D
          Feb 1 '17 at 9:31











        • Working backwards, I just realised you can simply ignore anything with an extension: ls -alhF --ignore=*.*. Not sure how well this would handle 'hidden' folders, i.e. .myHiddenFolder

          – Timmah
          Nov 1 '17 at 0:46














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        73







        I know there is already a selected answer, but you can get the requested behavior with just ls:



        ls -ld -- */


        (Note that the '--' marks the end of parameters, preventing folder names beginning with a hyphen from being interpreted as further command options.)



        This will list all the non-hidden (unless you configure your shell's globs to expand them) directories in the current working directory where it is run (note that it also includes symbolic links to directories). To get all the subdirectories of some other folder, just try:



        ls -ld /path/to/directory/*/


        Note that the -l is optional.






        share|improve this answer















        I know there is already a selected answer, but you can get the requested behavior with just ls:



        ls -ld -- */


        (Note that the '--' marks the end of parameters, preventing folder names beginning with a hyphen from being interpreted as further command options.)



        This will list all the non-hidden (unless you configure your shell's globs to expand them) directories in the current working directory where it is run (note that it also includes symbolic links to directories). To get all the subdirectories of some other folder, just try:



        ls -ld /path/to/directory/*/


        Note that the -l is optional.







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          Nice. I never considered that directories have an implicit / on the end--but now that I see you answer it makes sense. After all, tab-completion always adds it.

          – gvkv
          Sep 6 '10 at 3:46











        • -d for dir, -l for long format. whats the purpose of -- ?

          – Dineshkumar
          Apr 17 '15 at 15:03













        • While this looks short and works for most cases, one may not want to use this approach when a true directory is needed, not a directory's symlink. So find is actually a good choice in that case.

          – biocyberman
          Jan 31 '17 at 20:59













        • find also has the advantage when the number of directories exceeds the maximum argument length.

          – Steven D
          Feb 1 '17 at 9:31











        • Working backwards, I just realised you can simply ignore anything with an extension: ls -alhF --ignore=*.*. Not sure how well this would handle 'hidden' folders, i.e. .myHiddenFolder

          – Timmah
          Nov 1 '17 at 0:46














        • 4





          Nice. I never considered that directories have an implicit / on the end--but now that I see you answer it makes sense. After all, tab-completion always adds it.

          – gvkv
          Sep 6 '10 at 3:46











        • -d for dir, -l for long format. whats the purpose of -- ?

          – Dineshkumar
          Apr 17 '15 at 15:03













        • While this looks short and works for most cases, one may not want to use this approach when a true directory is needed, not a directory's symlink. So find is actually a good choice in that case.

          – biocyberman
          Jan 31 '17 at 20:59













        • find also has the advantage when the number of directories exceeds the maximum argument length.

          – Steven D
          Feb 1 '17 at 9:31











        • Working backwards, I just realised you can simply ignore anything with an extension: ls -alhF --ignore=*.*. Not sure how well this would handle 'hidden' folders, i.e. .myHiddenFolder

          – Timmah
          Nov 1 '17 at 0:46








        4




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        Nice. I never considered that directories have an implicit / on the end--but now that I see you answer it makes sense. After all, tab-completion always adds it.

        – gvkv
        Sep 6 '10 at 3:46





        Nice. I never considered that directories have an implicit / on the end--but now that I see you answer it makes sense. After all, tab-completion always adds it.

        – gvkv
        Sep 6 '10 at 3:46













        -d for dir, -l for long format. whats the purpose of -- ?

        – Dineshkumar
        Apr 17 '15 at 15:03







        -d for dir, -l for long format. whats the purpose of -- ?

        – Dineshkumar
        Apr 17 '15 at 15:03















        While this looks short and works for most cases, one may not want to use this approach when a true directory is needed, not a directory's symlink. So find is actually a good choice in that case.

        – biocyberman
        Jan 31 '17 at 20:59







        While this looks short and works for most cases, one may not want to use this approach when a true directory is needed, not a directory's symlink. So find is actually a good choice in that case.

        – biocyberman
        Jan 31 '17 at 20:59















        find also has the advantage when the number of directories exceeds the maximum argument length.

        – Steven D
        Feb 1 '17 at 9:31





        find also has the advantage when the number of directories exceeds the maximum argument length.

        – Steven D
        Feb 1 '17 at 9:31













        Working backwards, I just realised you can simply ignore anything with an extension: ls -alhF --ignore=*.*. Not sure how well this would handle 'hidden' folders, i.e. .myHiddenFolder

        – Timmah
        Nov 1 '17 at 0:46





        Working backwards, I just realised you can simply ignore anything with an extension: ls -alhF --ignore=*.*. Not sure how well this would handle 'hidden' folders, i.e. .myHiddenFolder

        – Timmah
        Nov 1 '17 at 0:46













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        No, but a simple find command will do it:



        find . -type d -depth 1


        or grep



        ls -F | grep /


        You could then alias either one if necessary.






        share|improve this answer





















        • 6





          On Ubuntu 14.04 it was -maxdepth 1. Also find wanted me to flip the order: find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

          – Brad Cupit
          Aug 28 '15 at 14:33











        • That ls -F | grep / solution works wonders! It seems to be the only one I can get to work on my FreeBSD machine. I think using Fish means that anything with */ may not work?

          – cjm
          Jul 27 '16 at 4:38











        • I've never worked with Fish so I'm not sure about that but the -F option can work wonders.

          – gvkv
          Jul 27 '16 at 13:21
















        11














        No, but a simple find command will do it:



        find . -type d -depth 1


        or grep



        ls -F | grep /


        You could then alias either one if necessary.






        share|improve this answer





















        • 6





          On Ubuntu 14.04 it was -maxdepth 1. Also find wanted me to flip the order: find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

          – Brad Cupit
          Aug 28 '15 at 14:33











        • That ls -F | grep / solution works wonders! It seems to be the only one I can get to work on my FreeBSD machine. I think using Fish means that anything with */ may not work?

          – cjm
          Jul 27 '16 at 4:38











        • I've never worked with Fish so I'm not sure about that but the -F option can work wonders.

          – gvkv
          Jul 27 '16 at 13:21














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        11








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        No, but a simple find command will do it:



        find . -type d -depth 1


        or grep



        ls -F | grep /


        You could then alias either one if necessary.






        share|improve this answer















        No, but a simple find command will do it:



        find . -type d -depth 1


        or grep



        ls -F | grep /


        You could then alias either one if necessary.







        share|improve this answer














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          On Ubuntu 14.04 it was -maxdepth 1. Also find wanted me to flip the order: find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

          – Brad Cupit
          Aug 28 '15 at 14:33











        • That ls -F | grep / solution works wonders! It seems to be the only one I can get to work on my FreeBSD machine. I think using Fish means that anything with */ may not work?

          – cjm
          Jul 27 '16 at 4:38











        • I've never worked with Fish so I'm not sure about that but the -F option can work wonders.

          – gvkv
          Jul 27 '16 at 13:21














        • 6





          On Ubuntu 14.04 it was -maxdepth 1. Also find wanted me to flip the order: find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

          – Brad Cupit
          Aug 28 '15 at 14:33











        • That ls -F | grep / solution works wonders! It seems to be the only one I can get to work on my FreeBSD machine. I think using Fish means that anything with */ may not work?

          – cjm
          Jul 27 '16 at 4:38











        • I've never worked with Fish so I'm not sure about that but the -F option can work wonders.

          – gvkv
          Jul 27 '16 at 13:21








        6




        6





        On Ubuntu 14.04 it was -maxdepth 1. Also find wanted me to flip the order: find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

        – Brad Cupit
        Aug 28 '15 at 14:33





        On Ubuntu 14.04 it was -maxdepth 1. Also find wanted me to flip the order: find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

        – Brad Cupit
        Aug 28 '15 at 14:33













        That ls -F | grep / solution works wonders! It seems to be the only one I can get to work on my FreeBSD machine. I think using Fish means that anything with */ may not work?

        – cjm
        Jul 27 '16 at 4:38





        That ls -F | grep / solution works wonders! It seems to be the only one I can get to work on my FreeBSD machine. I think using Fish means that anything with */ may not work?

        – cjm
        Jul 27 '16 at 4:38













        I've never worked with Fish so I'm not sure about that but the -F option can work wonders.

        – gvkv
        Jul 27 '16 at 13:21





        I've never worked with Fish so I'm not sure about that but the -F option can work wonders.

        – gvkv
        Jul 27 '16 at 13:21











        5














        I like the tree utility to get an overview over the directory structure. It's available in MacPorts and all Linux distributions I've tried.



        tree -d -L 2


        That would show all directories, two levels deep.






        share|improve this answer




























          5














          I like the tree utility to get an overview over the directory structure. It's available in MacPorts and all Linux distributions I've tried.



          tree -d -L 2


          That would show all directories, two levels deep.






          share|improve this answer


























            5












            5








            5







            I like the tree utility to get an overview over the directory structure. It's available in MacPorts and all Linux distributions I've tried.



            tree -d -L 2


            That would show all directories, two levels deep.






            share|improve this answer













            I like the tree utility to get an overview over the directory structure. It's available in MacPorts and all Linux distributions I've tried.



            tree -d -L 2


            That would show all directories, two levels deep.







            share|improve this answer












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                I also needed to view hidden directories so have modified the suggestion above to fit my needs



                ls -ad */ .*





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                  4














                  I also needed to view hidden directories so have modified the suggestion above to fit my needs



                  ls -ad */ .*





                  share|improve this answer




























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                    4








                    4







                    I also needed to view hidden directories so have modified the suggestion above to fit my needs



                    ls -ad */ .*





                    share|improve this answer















                    I also needed to view hidden directories so have modified the suggestion above to fit my needs



                    ls -ad */ .*






                    share|improve this answer














                    share|improve this answer



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                        The easiest way is to type the following command. This works across most UNIX and Linux platforms and versions. You can skip the -F if you want, but it is the argument that adds the / to the end of the directory name. The -C argument captures only directory names - all of them in the current directory. If you want to see only directories and subdirectories in the current path, simply add the -R argument (ls -CFR). 



                        # ls -CF
                        
/dir1  /dir2  /dir3  /beaches  /Work  /Other





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                        • In all ls implementations I know and in the POSIX specification of ls, -C is to output in columns, not to skip non-directory files. In your example, the / are printed before the file names, which no ls implementation would do. With -F, / is appended to the file name for directory files.

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                        The easiest way is to type the following command. This works across most UNIX and Linux platforms and versions. You can skip the -F if you want, but it is the argument that adds the / to the end of the directory name. The -C argument captures only directory names - all of them in the current directory. If you want to see only directories and subdirectories in the current path, simply add the -R argument (ls -CFR). 



                        # ls -CF
                        
/dir1  /dir2  /dir3  /beaches  /Work  /Other





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                        • In all ls implementations I know and in the POSIX specification of ls, -C is to output in columns, not to skip non-directory files. In your example, the / are printed before the file names, which no ls implementation would do. With -F, / is appended to the file name for directory files.

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                        The easiest way is to type the following command. This works across most UNIX and Linux platforms and versions. You can skip the -F if you want, but it is the argument that adds the / to the end of the directory name. The -C argument captures only directory names - all of them in the current directory. If you want to see only directories and subdirectories in the current path, simply add the -R argument (ls -CFR). 



                        # ls -CF
                        
/dir1  /dir2  /dir3  /beaches  /Work  /Other





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                        The easiest way is to type the following command. This works across most UNIX and Linux platforms and versions. You can skip the -F if you want, but it is the argument that adds the / to the end of the directory name. The -C argument captures only directory names - all of them in the current directory. If you want to see only directories and subdirectories in the current path, simply add the -R argument (ls -CFR). 



                        # ls -CF
                        
/dir1  /dir2  /dir3  /beaches  /Work  /Other






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                        • In all ls implementations I know and in the POSIX specification of ls, -C is to output in columns, not to skip non-directory files. In your example, the / are printed before the file names, which no ls implementation would do. With -F, / is appended to the file name for directory files.

                          – Stéphane Chazelas
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                        • In all ls implementations I know and in the POSIX specification of ls, -C is to output in columns, not to skip non-directory files. In your example, the / are printed before the file names, which no ls implementation would do. With -F, / is appended to the file name for directory files.

                          – Stéphane Chazelas
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                        In all ls implementations I know and in the POSIX specification of ls, -C is to output in columns, not to skip non-directory files. In your example, the / are printed before the file names, which no ls implementation would do. With -F, / is appended to the file name for directory files.

                        – Stéphane Chazelas
                        Jun 21 '18 at 16:15







                        In all ls implementations I know and in the POSIX specification of ls, -C is to output in columns, not to skip non-directory files. In your example, the / are printed before the file names, which no ls implementation would do. With -F, / is appended to the file name for directory files.

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                        I think ls has a bug on Mac OS X. A workaround is to use grep... ls -l / | grep "^d"






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                          It's nice to know I'm not the only person that uses the grep "^d" hack

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                          As far as I know, the behavior he describes is not a bug and is the same if one is using GNU ls. The -d option displays the listing for the directory and not the contents. To see why this can be useful see the difference between: ls -l /home and ls -dl /home

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                        • Carats aren't special to the shell. You can just use ls -l / | grep ^d. If you are going to use quotes, since you don't need parameter expansion, make them single quotes. ls -l / | grep '^d'. Yes, I'm a pedant. But really, do this. :)

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                        I think ls has a bug on Mac OS X. A workaround is to use grep... ls -l / | grep "^d"






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                          As far as I know, the behavior he describes is not a bug and is the same if one is using GNU ls. The -d option displays the listing for the directory and not the contents. To see why this can be useful see the difference between: ls -l /home and ls -dl /home

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                        • Carats aren't special to the shell. You can just use ls -l / | grep ^d. If you are going to use quotes, since you don't need parameter expansion, make them single quotes. ls -l / | grep '^d'. Yes, I'm a pedant. But really, do this. :)

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                        I think ls has a bug on Mac OS X. A workaround is to use grep... ls -l / | grep "^d"






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                        I think ls has a bug on Mac OS X. A workaround is to use grep... ls -l / | grep "^d"







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                          It's nice to know I'm not the only person that uses the grep "^d" hack

                          – Michael Mrozek♦
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                        • 6





                          As far as I know, the behavior he describes is not a bug and is the same if one is using GNU ls. The -d option displays the listing for the directory and not the contents. To see why this can be useful see the difference between: ls -l /home and ls -dl /home

                          – Steven D
                          Sep 6 '10 at 2:11













                        • Carats aren't special to the shell. You can just use ls -l / | grep ^d. If you are going to use quotes, since you don't need parameter expansion, make them single quotes. ls -l / | grep '^d'. Yes, I'm a pedant. But really, do this. :)

                          – Wildcard
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                          It's nice to know I'm not the only person that uses the grep "^d" hack

                          – Michael Mrozek♦
                          Sep 6 '10 at 2:10








                        • 6





                          As far as I know, the behavior he describes is not a bug and is the same if one is using GNU ls. The -d option displays the listing for the directory and not the contents. To see why this can be useful see the difference between: ls -l /home and ls -dl /home

                          – Steven D
                          Sep 6 '10 at 2:11













                        • Carats aren't special to the shell. You can just use ls -l / | grep ^d. If you are going to use quotes, since you don't need parameter expansion, make them single quotes. ls -l / | grep '^d'. Yes, I'm a pedant. But really, do this. :)

                          – Wildcard
                          Nov 1 '16 at 1:08








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                        It's nice to know I'm not the only person that uses the grep "^d" hack

                        – Michael Mrozek♦
                        Sep 6 '10 at 2:10







                        It's nice to know I'm not the only person that uses the grep "^d" hack

                        – Michael Mrozek♦
                        Sep 6 '10 at 2:10






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                        6





                        As far as I know, the behavior he describes is not a bug and is the same if one is using GNU ls. The -d option displays the listing for the directory and not the contents. To see why this can be useful see the difference between: ls -l /home and ls -dl /home

                        – Steven D
                        Sep 6 '10 at 2:11







                        As far as I know, the behavior he describes is not a bug and is the same if one is using GNU ls. The -d option displays the listing for the directory and not the contents. To see why this can be useful see the difference between: ls -l /home and ls -dl /home

                        – Steven D
                        Sep 6 '10 at 2:11















                        Carats aren't special to the shell. You can just use ls -l / | grep ^d. If you are going to use quotes, since you don't need parameter expansion, make them single quotes. ls -l / | grep '^d'. Yes, I'm a pedant. But really, do this. :)

                        – Wildcard
                        Nov 1 '16 at 1:08





                        Carats aren't special to the shell. You can just use ls -l / | grep ^d. If you are going to use quotes, since you don't need parameter expansion, make them single quotes. ls -l / | grep '^d'. Yes, I'm a pedant. But really, do this. :)

                        – Wildcard
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                        $ ls -p | grep /


                        The -p flag will make ls add a slash (`/') after each filename if that file is a directory.






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                          $ ls -p | grep /


                          The -p flag will make ls add a slash (`/') after each filename if that file is a directory.






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                            $ ls -p | grep /


                            The -p flag will make ls add a slash (`/') after each filename if that file is a directory.






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                            $ ls -p | grep /


                            The -p flag will make ls add a slash (`/') after each filename if that file is a directory.







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                                ls -G


                                this will show your directories in blue






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                                  Do you see only the directories when using this command ?

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                                this will show your directories in blue






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                                ls -G


                                this will show your directories in blue






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                                Do you see only the directories when using this command ?

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