Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

[Ookhoi <ookhoi@dds.nl>]

> >> Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just
> >> directories? 
> > 
> > Do a 
> > 
> >   man ls
> > 
> > There, press / (for searching in the manual).
> > 
> > Type -d (the text to search).
> > Type n twice (for next occurence of the searchtext).
> > 
> > See? The option -d is it.
> 
> I don't think this is what is wanted.  -d just keeps ls from listing the
> conents of the directory when you specify the directory name on the
> command line.
> 
> To list just the directories in the current directory you can do
> 
> find . -type d -maxdepth 1  
> 
> or you can feed the output to ls to format it better
> 
> find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs ls -d
> 
> and add other args to ls as needed.

I have 
alias dir='ls -al | grep ^d | grep -v grep'
in my /etc/profile. I like it. :-)

		Ookhoi