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

[Ben Walton]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:32 PM,  <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?

Not to mention that this relies on shell globbing and isn't an ls
feature at all. :)

Thanks
-Ben
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