A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - Poul-Henning Kamp article

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:

>>> Why is it that the ls command doesn't
>>> have an option of showing only directories?
>>
>> ls -d */
>>
>>
> Sure, but why do I have to add the cryptic */ to this?

   Because that's what you want.

> Why not just ls -d?

   Because that does something different.

   I use this function to list directories:

ld() #@ List directories
{
     ld_dir=$1
     set -- ${1:+"$1/"}*/
     [ -d "${1:-.}" ] || return 5
     ls -ld ${ld_dir:+$ld_dir/}*/ 2>/dev/null
}

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