PradeepR wrote:
> I am trying to find a way to list only the directories in particular
> UNIX folder. I have tried to find the command in the Net, but without
> success.
>
> I have tried
> ls -d
> ls -d *
>
> What it does is, displays files as well as directories. The only
> difference was that, it did not display the files under that directory.

ls -al | grep ^d

or

ls -l | grep ^d
to omitt dotdirs

you might want to alias the commands

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In article <1127565113.531671.264100@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
"PradeepR" wrote:

> I am trying to find a way to list only the directories in particular
> UNIX folder. I have tried to find the command in the Net, but without
> success.
>
> I have tried
> ls -d
> ls -d *
>
> What it does is, displays files as well as directories. The only
> difference was that, it did not display the files under that directory.

The -d option means not to descend *into* directories (i.e. list the
directory itself, not its contents), it doesn't mean to list only
directories. Try:

ls -d */.

This will also include symbolic links that point to directories, though.

Another solution is:

find * -type d -print -prune

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Yes, it works. Thanks mate.

It works. Thanks.

For many non-ancient UNIX flavors, something like:
$ ls -d */
will suffice.
If that generally works for your flavor, you might also want to discard
stderr and ignore
error(s) in general.
E.g.:
$ ls -d */
ls: */: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
1
$ mkdir d
$ ls -d */
d/
$ echo $?
0
$ rmdir d
$ 2>>/dev/null ls -d */ || :
$ echo $?
0
$