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? Why not just ls -d?
>>
>> P.
>
> What happens when you do ls -d? You get '.'
>
> According to the manual entry:
>
> -d, --directory
>              list directory entries instead of contents, and do not
> dereference symbolic links
>
> In other words, if you use ls -d, it tells you 'you are in the current
> directory', or more colloquially: you are where you are. That's not a huge
> amount of information.

    You didn't ask for any more information.

ls -ld

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