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list only directories

September 15th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Common, ls | Hits: 41283 | 7 Comments »

I am searching for ls option that allow me to list only directories. I just want to list the directories but not other files and not the content of directories, I can do this

ls -d */

I have wrote a post stated that there are no direct ways to list just directories, and wrote a bash scripts using find t...

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