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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can ls be made to only list directories?
Message-ID: <1990Sep3.032037.487@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 3 Sep 90 03:20:37 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)

In article <14171@cbmvax.commodore.com>, ag@cbmvax (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
| Which will list all subdirectories also; which is probably not what
| Scott wanted.
| 
| 	$ ls -ld `echo */.`
| 
| is probably more in tune to what was requested.  CAVEAT: directories
| starting with `.' are not displayed.  Modify as needed.

A tip from someone who knows launching processes is expensive:

You *never* need

	`echo something`

Just use

	something

Think about it.  And that'd make your command line pretty close to mine
(at least *one* of mine :-), as in:

	$ ls -ld */.

Just another UNIX hacker,
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