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How to display directories recursively?

Cannot find how to list the directory structure of a volume recursively. Do not want the files reported. Say I have 100 directories and 10,000 files, I do not want 10,000 lines of output. (If this is relevant, I am using the terminal on my OSX Mac). I hope this is easy - there should be an easy way. -- jim
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Code:
find <base directory> -type d
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find /export -type d
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Thank you Reborg. Since this is a dummies group, could you explain why number (1) works but numbers (2) and (3) don't work?

(1)
guests-Computer:/volumes/white guest$ pwd
/volumes/white
guests-Computer:/volumes/white guest$ find . -type d
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./pho_pp
./pho_pp/Test_dir
./pho_pers
(snip)

(2)
guests-Computer:/volumes/white guest$ pwd
/volumes/white
guests-Computer:/volumes/white guest$ find /white -type d
find: /white: No such file or directory

(3)
guests-Computer:/volumes guest$ pwd
/volumes
guests-Computer:/volumes guest$ find /white -type d
find: /white: No such file or directory
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In (1), you specify that the find command is to search in the pwd. In (2) and (3), the find command is supposed to search in the /white directory which does not exist. In fact, it clearly says that in the output doesn't it.

To make (3) work, run the command as:
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guests-Computer:/volumes guest$ pwd
/volumes
guests-Computer:/volumes guest$ find white -type d
Assuming that 'white' is a directory inside /volumes, the command will work.
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One of the easy way to list just the directory is using ls -ltr|grep ^d
try that.
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Easy yes, but incredibly slow, and in most cases not very useful output for use in a script.
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