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ls -d |
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Fri, 7 Aug 2015 17:01:06 -0700 |
Hi,
I believe there is a problem with ls -d (unless the intent is to just list 1 directory).
Say I have a dir mydir, it has directories d1 and d2, and files f1 and f2.
I want to list only d1 and d2. How do I do that? I tried ls -d but that doesn't seem to work:
\ls -d mydir
returns: mydir
\ls -d mydir/*
returns: mydir/d1 mydir/d2 mydir/f1 mydir/f2
but f1 and f2 are files.
How can I achieve the following:
\ls ?????? mydir
to return: mydir/d1 mydir/d2
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Re: bug#21218: ls -d |
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Fri, 7 Aug 2015 21:43:30 -0600 |
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tag 21218 notabug
thanks
On 08/07/2015 06:01 PM, Sneeh, Eddie wrote:
> Hi,
> I believe there is a problem with ls -d (unless the intent is to just list
> 1 directory).
Thanks for the report. However, I think you have misunderstood the
purpose of -d. Try this for comparison:
touch file
ls . file
ls -d . file
All -d does is to list command line arguments that are directories as
the name of the directory itself, rather than descending and showing the
directory's contents.
> Say I have a dir mydir, it has directories d1 and d2, and files f1 and f2.
> I want to list only d1 and d2. How do I do that? I tried ls -d but that
> doesn't seem to work:
> \ls -d mydir
> returns: mydir
> \ls -d mydir/*
> returns: mydir/d1 mydir/d2 mydir/f1 mydir/f2
> but f1 and f2 are files.
If you want to list ONLY directories, use a glob that guarantees only
directories can be matched:
ls -d mydir/*/
The trailing slash can only match directories, and will therefore skip
ordinary files. Or, you can use find:
find mydir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 2 -type d
I'm closing this as not a bug as ls is working as designed, but feel
free to ask further questions.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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