How to list only files and not directories of a directory Bash?

Question

How can I list all the files of one folder but not their folders or subfiles. In other words: How can I list only the files?

Answer 1

Using find:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f

Using the -maxdepth 1 option ensures that you only look in the current directory (or, if you replace the . with some path, that directory). If you want a full recursive listing of all files in that and subdirectories, just remove that option.

Answer 2

ls -p | grep -v /

ls -p lets you show / after the folder name, which acts as a tag for you to remove.

Answer 3

Just adding on to carlpett's answer. For a much useful view of the files, you could pipe the output to ls.

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f|ls -lt|less

Shows the most recently modified files in a list format, quite useful when you have downloaded a lot of files, and want to see a non-cluttered version of the recent ones.

Answer 4

{ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs ls -1t | less; }

added xargs to make it works, and used -1 instead of -l to show only filenames without additional ls info

Answer 5

You can also use ls with grep or egrep and put it in your profile as an alias:

ls -l | egrep -v '^d'
ls -l | grep -v '^d'

Answer 6

"find '-maxdepth' " does not work with my old version of bash, therefore I use:

for f in $(ls) ; do if [ -f $f ] ; then echo $f ; fi ; done