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# 1  
Old 10-31-2016
Bash to list all folders in a specific directory
The below bash is trying to list the folders in a specific directory. It seems close but adds the path to the filename, which basename could strip off I think, but not sure why it writes the text file created? This list of folders in the directory will be used later, but needs to only be the folder names. Thank you Smilie.

Bash
Code:
#!/bin/bash
dir="/home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/"
for file in ${dir}/*
  do  
    echo "$file"
  done > /home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/list

folders in /home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder
Code:
f1
f2
f3

current output
Code:
/home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/f1
/home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/f2
/home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/f3
/home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/list

desired output
Code:
f1
f2
f3

# 2  
Old 10-31-2016
Hi,

can you try the below one ?

Code:
A="/home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/f1"
echo ${A##*/}

Gives desired output
Quote:
f1
Seems i misinterpret it. If you want to print only directories, following might help:
Code:
find /home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder -type d -exec basename {} \;

Last edited by greet_sed; 10-31-2016 at 12:06 PM.. Reason: Add solution to print directory only
# 3  
Old 10-31-2016
ls -dF1 */

Options may be differents depending on your OS (check man ls)
# 4  
Old 11-01-2016
Code:
#!/bin/bash
dir="/home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/"
cd ${dir}
for file in *
  do  
    echo "$file"
  done > /home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/list

# 5  
Old 11-01-2016
Perhaps a neater way if this is available:-
Code:
pushd $dir
ls -1
popd



Does this help?



Robin
# 6  
Old 11-01-2016
hi, try:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
dir="/home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/"
for file in ${dir}/*/
  do
    file="${file%%/}"  
    echo "${file##.*/}"
  done > /home/cmccabe/Desktop/tetsfolder/list

Regards.
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