Re: Get directories names

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:09:51PM -0500, Tong wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the
> current directory in RH:
> 
> ls -l <criteria> | grep ^d | cut -c57-
> 
> but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. 
> 
> How do you get it? Thanks

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d
or
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d|cut -c3- |grep -v '^\.'
if you want just the names, and no directories with names starting with
'.'

Frank

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