Listing only directories in UNIX

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I want to list only the directories in specified path  ls doesn t have such option   Also  can this be done with a single line command

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If I have this directory   ls -l  lrwxrwxrwx  1 nagios nagios     11 ao  t   2 18 46 conf nagios - gt   etc icinga -rw-------  1 nagios nagios 724930 ao  t  15 21 00 dead letter -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios  12312 ao  t  23 00 13 icinga log -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   8323 ao  t  23 00 12 icinga log gz drwxr-xr-x  2 nagios nagios   4096 ao  t  23 16 36 tmp   To get all directories  use -L to resolve links   ls -lL   grep   d   drwxr-xr-x 5 nagios nagios   4096 ao  t  15 21 22 conf nagios drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios   4096 ao  t  23 16 41 tmp   Without -L   ls -l   grep   d   drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios   4096 ao  t  23 16 41 tmp   conf nagios directory is missing

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You can use the tree command with its d switch to accomplish this     tree -d tstdir tstdir  -- d1      -- d11          -- d111  -- d2      -- d21          -- d211  6 directories   see man tree for more info

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In bash   ls -d      Will list all directories  ls -ld      will list all directories in long form  ls -ld          will list all directories  including hidden directories  in long form     I have recently switched to zsh  MacOS  Catalina   and found that   ls -ld          no longer works if the current directory contains no hidden directories   zsh  no matches found        It will print the above error  but also will fail to print any directories   ls -ld              Also fails in the same way   So far I have found that this   ls -ld    ls -ld       is a decent workaround  The   is a command separator  But it means that if there are no hidden directories  it will list directories  and still print the error for no hidden directories   foo bar zsh  no matches found          ls is the shell command for list contents of current directory -l is the flag to specify that you want to list in Longford  one item per line   a bunch of other cool information  -d is the flag to list all directories  as files  and not recursively    is the argument  list all files ending in a slash    is a simple regex command for  anything   so    is asking the shell to list  anything ending in       See man ls for more information     I put this   alias lad  ls -ld    ls -ld       in my  zshrc  and it seems to work fine   NOTE  I ve also discovered that  ls -ld     2 gt   dev null  doesn t work  as it still prints sterr to the terminal  I ll update my answer if when I find a solution

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du -d1 is perhaps the shortest option   As long as you don t need to pipe the input to another command

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This has been working for me    ls -F   grep       But  I am switching to echo    as mentioned by  nos

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In order to list the directories in current working directory  ls -d    can be used   And If you need to list the hidden directories use this command  ls -d

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ls -l   grep   d    You can make an alias and put it into the profile file  alias ld  ls -l  grep   d

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You can use ls -d    or tree -d  Another solution would be globbing but this depends on the shell you are using and if globbing for directories is supported   For example ZSH   zsh   ls

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use this to get a list of directory  ls -d      sed -e  s     g

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Long listing of directories    ls -l   grep    d      ls -l   grep    d    Listing directories  -  ls -d

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Try this ls -d    to list directories within the current directory

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find   -maxdepth 1 -type d -name           sed  s

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Here s another solution that shows linked directories  I slightly prefer it because it s a subset of the  normal  ls -l output   ls -1d      rev   cut -c2-   rev   xargs ls -ld --color always

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find specifiedpath -type d  If you don t want to recurse in subdirectories  you can do this instead   find specifiedpath -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1  Note that  dot  directories  whose name start with    will be listed too  but not the special directories   nor      If you don t want  dot  directories  you can just grep them out   find specifiedpath -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1   grep -v

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To list only directories in a specified path just type ls -l   grep drw

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The following   find   -maxdepth 0 -type d   basically filters the expansion of      i e  all entries in the current dir  by the -type d condition   Advantage is that  output is same as ls -1    but only with directories  and entries do not start with a dot

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If you need full path of dir and list selective dir with  name  of dir or dir prefix    find   pwd  -maxdepth 1 -type d -name  SL

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Since there are dozens of ways to do it  here is another one   tree -d -L 1 -i --noreport    -d  directories -L  depth of the tree  hence 1  our working directory  -i  no indentation  print names only --noreport  do not report information at the end of the tree listing

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The answer will depend on your shell   In zsh  for example  you can do the following   echo        And all directories within the current working directory will be displayed   See man zshexpn for more information   An alternative approach would be to use find 1   which should work on most Unix flavours   find   -maxdepth 1 -type d -print     find 1  has many uses  so I d definitely recommend man find

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Try this   find   -maxdepth 1 -type d

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