Listing only directories in UNIX

Question

I want to list only the directories in specified path (ls doesn\'t have such option). Also, can this be done with a single line command?

Answer 1

If I have this directory:

ls -l

lrwxrwxrwx  1 nagios nagios     11 août   2 18:46 conf_nagios -> /etc/icinga
-rw-------  1 nagios nagios 724930 août  15 21:00 dead.letter
-rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios  12312 août  23 00:13 icinga.log
-rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   8323 août  23 00:12 icinga.log.gz
drwxr-xr-x  2 nagios nagios   4096 août  23 16:36 tmp

To get all directories, use -L to resolve links:

ls -lL | grep '^d'

drwxr-xr-x 5 nagios nagios   4096 août  15 21:22 conf_nagios
drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios   4096 août  23 16:41 tmp

Without -L:

ls -l | grep '^d'

drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios   4096 août  23 16:41 tmp

conf_nagios directory is missing.

Answer 2

This has been working for me:

`ls -F | grep /`

(But, I am switching to echo */ as mentioned by @nos)

Answer 3

Try this ls -d */ to list directories within the current directory

Answer 4

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name [^\.]\* | sed 's:^\./::'

Answer 5

The answer will depend on your shell.

In zsh, for example, you can do the following:

echo *(/)

And all directories within the current working directory will be displayed.

See man zshexpn for more information.

An alternative approach would be to use find(1), which should work on most Unix flavours:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print  

find(1) has many uses, so I'd definitely recommend man find.

Answer 6

Since there are dozens of ways to do it, here is another one:

tree -d -L 1 -i --noreport

• -d: directories
• -L: depth of the tree (hence 1, our working directory)
• -i: no indentation, print names only
• --noreport: do not report information at the end of the tree listing