Re: [patch] add option to ls to display only directories

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:

> * But your example really shines with a simple columnar ls listing
>   trying to get just the directories.  Paraphrasing your example into
>   an lsd example, and ignoring ARG_MAX for the moment:
>
>   alias lsd='ls -d $(find -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name ".*" -printf "%P\n")'

Even simpler:

    alias lsd='ls -d */'

The drawback is that a spurious slash is appended to each name and you'll
get an error message if there are no directories to match.

Andreas.

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