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Old 10-01-2009
writing commands?

how to write a command line that displays the long listing of just the directories in the current working directory?
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Old 10-01-2009
ls options are sometimes flavor-dependent. check your man page. elsewise, this will work:
Code:
ls -l | grep "^d"

 
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