[plug] directory listing

[Alex Nordstrom]

Monday, 10 April 2006 13:29, Jon Miller wrote:
> After looking up the parameters for the ls command I still cannot
> find what I'm looking for which is a simple listing of all
> subdirectories starting at a certain point. I want a listing of
> subdirectories only in a directory called /shared. I've issue the
> following command ls -d and yieldednothing.

Ah, I remember this from a first-year tutorial at Curtin.

Try:

ls -d /shared/*/

What -d does is to just list all matching files (including directories). 
If you didn't have it, ls would also proceed to list the contents of 
any matching directories. The slash at the end will make sure only 
directories are matched.

For a long listing, try:

ls -l | grep ^d

Where ^d matches entries with 'd' (for directory) as the first character 
on a line.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
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