Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

Plz tell me the cmd of viewing only directories. Suppose i am at bin directory and it contains another directory mails with lotz of files in it.

Now when ever I do ls -lt mails under bin directory it shows me all the files inside mails dir . But I just want to see only mails dir as an output not all of its contents(i.e files inside mails dir). Is there any switch for displaying directories only.

Plz let me know. I would be thankful. I am working on Solaris 5.8 platform.


Thnx..
Aru

If I understand your questions try:

Code:

ls .

This gives the files that live in the current directory, including the names of directories but not the files in those directories.

ls -d */

Only list the directories in the current directory

cheers

swapneel

ls -d */

Only list the directories in the current directory

cheers

swapneel

Dear friend thanks for reply. I have tried uising ls -d */ but its giving me following error

$ ls -d */
*/: No such file or directory

But there are few directories in bin folder. Please suggest some other solution.

Aru.

hi

try ls */

or

visit this page http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uls.htm
and have a look at directoy of file

Cheers

Swapneel

try
ls -l|grep ^d