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Old 01-16-2005
ls -d does not work
Hi falks,

I need to dispaly a list of only directories .
As it written in the manual ,the command to do it is 'ls -d'.
When i issue 'ls -d' i'm getting:

tornado.orca.ent:DB10g :/home/oracle/Create_Database > ls -d
.

Is anyone have any idea why id does not display directories ,or maybe there is another switch of 'ls' to do it?

Thanks in advance,
Nir
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Old 01-16-2005
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Last edited by druuna; 05-21-2009 at 10:19 AM..
druuna
# 3  
Old 01-16-2005
Hey druuna,

Thanks for your reply.

ls -d * is not good for me because it displays files and directories.
I need to display directories excluding files.

Any more ideas?

Nir
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Old 01-16-2005
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Last edited by druuna; 05-21-2009 at 10:19 AM..
druuna
# 5  
Old 01-16-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by druuna
ls -d * | grep '^d' => list directories in current dir only
No, that won't do it.

The command you're looking for is
ls -l /my/dir | grep '^d'

so you were almost there.... Obviously you can omit /my/dir to get a listing for the current directory.

Cheers
ZB
# 6  
Old 01-16-2005
Hey falks,

Thanks a lot!!
Zazzybob - your suggestion was the closer to what i was looking for.
Finally ,i used the following:

ls -l | grep '^d' | awk '{print $9}'

Regards,

Nir
# 7  
Old 01-16-2005
i must admit, my skills with awk are minimal, but doesn't this make more sense?

ls -l | awk ' /^d/ {print $9}'
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