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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: type discriminating directory listing
Message-ID: <2835@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 12 May 89 07:49:19 GMT
References: <1529@cmx.npac.syr.edu> <8905110644.AA01902@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <8905110644.AA01902@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu writes:
>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 ?
>
>When you feed BSD "ls" into a pipe, it doesn't print the filenames in
>columns;

Not to the real point, but if you invoke it as "ls -C" it will force
the columnar output even if it's not to a tty.

				--Blair
				  "My fave:  ls -RFC
				   I never:  ls -RFTM"