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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?
Message-ID: <3899@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US>
Date: 6 Sep 90 04:22:14 GMT
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Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca.
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Come on people, this really is trivial! The basics are _simple_.
Just do `ls -l | grep "^d"`. However, here is a little shell script
I wrote a longgg time ago for splunking around the system.

You don't need awk, sed, ed or anything else so tough. If a script
can be done simple way, *do it in a simple way*.
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# sdir - Get a sub-directory listing of your current directory
# Jay 9-15-88

(ls -l | grep "^d" || echo "There are no sub-directories")|pg

NOTE: The || works as an 'if' stmt for the times there aren't any
      subdirectories and the parens are there to make sure the
      output goes through `pg'. 

      The program lived for about 2 years as `ls -l | grep "^d"`
      before getting upgraded and that was only done when I got
      in the mood to hack something :-)


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Jay @ SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.   UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!jak
If something is worth doing, its worth doing correctly.