lists all directories as well.

it does but it lists all directories recursivly which I did not want. I was just looking for directories in the current directory

penchal,

I changed your line a bit awk can parse, whatever it is called, the ^d so grep is not needed.

ls -ltr | awk '/^d/ {print $NF}'

Im still reading up on awk to figure out what exactly the $NF does though

ok, $NF is just a variable for the number of fields in the file.. so whenI call it it just automagically calls the last field to be printed? Is that correct?

Yes that is what $NF refers to.

awesome, thanks everyone. I didnt realize this scripting stuff wasnt so hard to figure out. I wish I would of jumped on learning this stuff a few years ago