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Old 11-21-2005
Question ls command to list recursively ONLY subdirectories

Smilie
ls -dlRr
I've tried different combinations of the ls command using the above-mentioned options but none of them are giving me the output I am looking for.

Objective: To get a recursive listing of all subdirectories from a particular starting point. For example, if my starting point is directory A, and directory A contains subdirectories B, C, D, and each of the subdirectories contains a combination of directories and files called B1, C1, D1, etc., I want a recursive listing of the subdirectories contained, so the output will be something like
A
./B
./B1
./C1
etc. while excluding the list of the individual files.

I tried doing a search for 'ls' in the forum but didn't see anything within the first two pages of the results that the search pulled.

Help please!

Thanks!

- Hae

--- Edit ---

Nevermind! Found the answer at https://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t...t=ls+recursive

Last edited by HLee1981; 11-21-2005 at 06:08 PM..
# 2  
Old 11-21-2005
find /A -type d -ls
or
find /A -type d -ls |awk '{print $10}'
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Old 11-21-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by RTM
find /A -type d -ls
or
find /A -type d -ls |awk '{print $10}'
RTM, neither of the commands worked using the find/A prefix. The result I get is find: cannot open /A: No such file or directory.

I tried it using a lowercase a after the /.

Thanks.
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Old 11-21-2005
what about

Code:
ls -Rl | grep "[a-z]:" | sed 's/://'

# 5  
Old 11-21-2005
Yea, sorry about that - you probably don't have a /A - but I was more using your example
Quote:
For example, if my starting point is directory A
# 6  
Old 05-14-2009
One line shell command to retrieve subdirectory names

Here is a brute force way to retrieve sub-directories in shell script:
ls -R | grep ":" | sed "s/://"
Any files named with a colon ":" will cause a false positive.
 
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