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use the find command and have it not print trailing slashes

Terminal - use the find command and have it not print trailing slashes
find * -maxdepth 0 -type d
2013-02-25 21:10:49
User: sonic
Functions: find
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use the find command and have it not print trailing slashes

the advantage to doing it this way is that you can adjust the max depth to get more recursive results and run it on non GNU systems. It also won't print trailing slashes, which can easily be removed, but can be slightly annoying..

You could run:

# for file in `find * -maxdepth 0 -type d`;do ls -d $file;done

and in the ls -d part of the command you can put in whatever parameters you want to get things like permissions, time stamps, and ownership.

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Terminal - Alternatives
ls -d */
2009-10-08 22:07:22
User: brianmuckian
Functions: ls
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List only the directories

-d: list directory entries instead of contents, and do not dereference symbolic links

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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | sort
2011-08-08 03:04:31
User: dbbolton
Functions: find
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List only the directories
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ls -d */
2013-02-15 14:37:35
User: huazhihao
Functions: ls
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list directories only
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ls -l | egrep ^d
2009-02-08 22:21:55
User: ergut
Functions: egrep ls
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List only the directories

This command would be useful when it is desirable to list only the directories. 'egrep' chooses only the lines that begin with 'd'.

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tree -dL 1
2009-10-11 23:20:17
User: Escher
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List only the directories

to include hidden dirs use:

tree -adL 1

(with ls, requires 'ls -ad */ .*/')

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What others think

If you're going to the trouble of using find, at least use the -exec argument. Plus, no reason to use shell globbing...

find . -maxdepth 0 -type d -exec ls -d +

(If you end with a +, find will send "ls -d" as many arguments as possible, a la xargs; if you end it with a ;, find will run the command once per file, a la xargs -n 1.)

Comment by minnmass 11 weeks and 6 days ago

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