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

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?

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.

ls -p | grep -v /

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

carlpett's find-based answer (find . -maxdepth 1 -type f) works in principle, but is not quite the same as using ls: you get a potentially unsorted list of filenames all prefixed with ./, and you lose the ability to apply ls's many options;
also find invariably finds hidden items too, whereas ls' behavior depends on the presence or absence of the -a or -A options.
- An improvement, suggested by Alex Hall in a comment on the question is to combine shell globbing with find:
```
    find * -maxdepth 0 -type f  # find -L * ... includes symlinks to files
```
  - However, while this addresses the prefix problem and gives you alphabetically sorted output, you still have neither (inline) control over inclusion of hidden items nor access to ls's many other sorting / output-format options.
Hans Roggeman's ls + grep answer is pragmatic, but locks you into using long (-l) output format.

To address these limitations I wrote the fls (filtering ls) utility,

a utility that provides the output flexibility of ls while also providing type-filtering capability,
simply by placing type-filtering characters such as f for files, d for directories, and l for symlinks before a list of ls arguments (run fls --help or fls --man to learn more).

Examples:

fls f        # list all files in current dir.
fls d -tA ~  #  list dirs. in home dir., including hidden ones, most recent first
fls f^l /usr/local/bin/c* # List matches that are files, but not (^) symlinks (l)

Installation

Supported platforms

When installing from the npm registry: Linux and macOS
When installing manually: any Unix-like platform with Bash

From the npm registry

^{Note: Even if you don't use Node.js, its package manager, npm, works across platforms and is easy to install; try
curl -L https://git.io/n-install | bash}

With Node.js installed, install as follows:

[sudo] npm install fls -g

Note:

Whether you need sudo depends on how you installed Node.js / io.js and whether you've changed permissions later; if you get an EACCES error, try again with sudo.
The -g ensures global installation and is needed to put fls in your system's $PATH.

Manual installation

Download this bash script as fls.
Make it executable with chmod +x fls.
Move it or symlink it to a folder in your $PATH, such as /usr/local/bin (macOS) or /usr/bin (Linux).

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'

Anabioz

{ 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

With regex:

ls -al | egrep -v "^d.*"

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.

"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

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10574794/how-to-list-only-files-and-not-directories-of-a-directory-bash

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