Command to list/find ONLY all directories.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

I need to list or find only directories.
But the following command shows all files & subdirectories, instead of showing only directories.

find . -type d -exec ll {} \;

OR

The next command just list a dot “.” Only.
/tmp#ll -ld
drwxrwxrwx 60 bin bin 7168 Feb 15 13:33 .


Thanks,

Gulam.

[Patrick Wallek]

You are 99% there. A basic ll will list the contents of the directories it finds. You need to add the '-d' flag to your ll command.

# find . -type d -exec ll -d {} \;

will do precisely what you require.

[RAC_1]

You need to ll -d {} or you do not need -exec at all.

Just plain
find . -type d
works fine.
find . -type d -exec ll -d {} \;
Also works fine.

Why find??

ll -R . | grep ^dr

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

Thanks "find . -type d -exec ll -d {} \;" works, but it also list recursive directoires.

I just would to list the all dir without recursive directories.

Thanks,

Gulam.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Gulam:

'find' is designed to descend a directory tree.

If all you want to see are directories immediately beneath a mountpoint (directory) or beneath another directory, do:

# ls -l /tmp | grep "^d"

The caret (^) anchors the grep to the beginning of the line. Sice 'ls' reports directories with a leading "d", the above command should give you what you want.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

/tmp#ll |grep -c ^dr
58
/tmp#ll -R . | grep -c ^dr
201
tmp#find . -type d -exec ll -d {} \;|wc -l
202

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

You can get a list of directories only and not descending into subdirectories by-

cd /tmp
find * -type d -prune -print

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Rick Garland]

find / -depth -exec ls -la {} \; | grep '^d'

Find everything on the system then pipe it through grep and listing only directories. Using the ^ character as an anchor.

The resulting list will be directories only with full list as supplied by the 'ls -la' command

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
ls -l|grep ^d

HTH,
Art

[Muthukumar_5]

Do you want to get only the directories in the pwd then,

# ls -l . | grep -E '^d'

That is it.

--
Muthu

[Muthukumar_5]

You can use find as well as,

# cd

# find . ! -name "." -type d -prune

--
Muthu

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Gulam,

A small script will do,

for i in * ; do if [ -d $i ]; then echo $i ; fi ; done

-Arun

[Muthukumar_5]

for i in * ; do if [ -d $i ]; then echo $i ; fi ; done

will miss .

Try to use as,

for i in `ls` ; do if [ -d $i ]; then echo $i ; fi ; done

--
Muthu