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From: jak@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Jay A. Konigsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can ls be made to only list directories?
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Date: 2 Sep 90 14:18:03 GMT
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Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca.
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>In article <90243.151817SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> SML108@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott the Great) writes:
>As the subject asks, is there a set of options which will limit
>ls to listing directories?

A simple solution is to pipe the output of 'ls -l' through
'grep' and anchor the leading "d" in "drwxrwxrwx" to the
begining of the string.

ls -l | grep "^d"

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