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From: jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: type discriminating directory listing
Keywords: ls, subdirectories, symbolic-links
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Date: 11 May 89 07:44:38 GMT
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In article <1529@cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs@logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
> what would be the command for getting a partial directory listings
> of only the subdirectories and symbolic-links ?

I saw a few solutions that used "ls -l".  How about "ls -F", which (on BSD)
marks subdirectories with a trailing "/" and symlinks with a trailing "@"?

	ls -F | grep '[/@]$'

When you feed BSD "ls" into a pipe, it doesn't print the filenames in
columns; that's good for this test but it looks lousy on the screen if
there are lots of filenames.  A kludge for that looks like this:

	ls -F | grep '[/@]$' | pr -4 -l1 -t

The "-4" gives 4 columns -- adjust that, depending on the filename length.

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
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