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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:17557 comp.unix.admin:30255 comp.unix.bsd:16667 comp.unix.programmer:26817 comp.unix.questions:66343 comp.unix.shell:23426 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE!sinder From: sinder@harpo.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Andreas Sindermann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: A Unix command to obtain directory name only Date: 07 Jul 1995 23:33:28 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 11 Message-ID: <SINDER.95Jul8013328@harpo.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <3tk3dc$4ml@rcp6.elan.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: harpo.rrz.uni-koeln.de In-reply-to: Jay J Oh's message of 7 Jul 1995 19:54:20 GMT In article <3tk3dc$4ml@rcp6.elan.af.mil> Jay J Oh <OHJ%CSCADPS@mhs.elan.af.mil> writes: > I am trying to invoke a unix command to obtain only directory names > listing for a given path. I tried using 'ls -d *', but this includes > files also. I also tried 'find -type d . -print' but this command > recursively list all the subdirectories, which I don't want. How about 'find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print'? Andreas -- sinder@rrz.uni-koeln.de