have u tried dir command
type:- I cant understand what u looking for??? but i guess thats it...or u want to see files within dir also???


dir

do u want this??

ls -ld mails

Append this in profile:
alias lsd='ls -1F $* | grep '/$' '

type
lsd

This will display all the directories.
E.g.:-
dir_a/
dir_b/
mails/

Dude! That's a nice little alias.

I'm an alias junkie.. I'll make sure I add that one

Cheers

The given alias is quite ok for listings of the $PWD.
But if I remember correctly aliases (or better alii) are parameter ignorant.
If you wish to pass parameters you need to define a shell function.
For instance you could put this in your .shrc file.
Then you could say e.g.
lsd /etc /var

Of course the classic way to list directories is simply to use find
e.g. for a recursive search

find /var -type d

But you could restrict the descent to inodes of the same filesystem

find /var -xdev -type d

Or even limit the depth of descent

find /var -maxdepth 1 -type d

But better consult your Unix's manpage of find because despite
a common denominator the different finds all deviate slightly in their scope and syntax.
Probably the widest functionality is offered by GNU find,
as is part of findutils of Linux distros.

Note also, if you run find with restricted permissions as far as read and execute
of dirs is concerned that it's probably advisable to redirect stderr to /dev/null
to prevent error messages cluttering your find results.

I've never had a problem passing arg's to aliases. Consider the RH default, which aliases 'ls' to 'ls --color'..

Perhaps the problem is a "shell specific", one. In which case, we could chalk it up to another example of of how much bash RULES.