I want to list only the directories in specified path (ls doesn't have such option). Also, can this be done with a single line command?
22 Answers
Try this ls -d */ to list directories within the current directory
Try this:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d The following
find * -maxdepth 0 -type d basically filters the expansion of '*', i.e. all entries in the current dir, by the -type d condition.
Advantage is that, output is same as ls -1 *, but only with directories and entries do not start with a dot
You can use ls -d */ or tree -d
Another solution would be globbing but this depends on the shell you are using and if globbing for directories is supported.
For example ZSH:
zsh # ls *(/) ls -l | grep '^d' You can make an alias and put it into the profile file
alias ld="ls -l| grep '^d'" Since there are dozens of ways to do it, here is another one:
tree -d -L 1 -i --noreport - -d: directories
- -L: depth of the tree (hence 1, our working directory)
- -i: no indentation, print names only
- --noreport: do not report information at the end of the tree listing
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name [^\.]\* | sed 's:^\./::' use this to get a list of directory
ls -d */ | sed -e "s/\///g" The answer will depend on your shell.
In zsh, for example, you can do the following:
echo *(/) And all directories within the current working directory will be displayed.
See man zshexpn for more information.
An alternative approach would be to use find(1), which should work on most Unix flavours:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print find(1) has many uses, so I'd definitely recommend man find.
In order to list the directories in current working directory ls -d */ can be used. And If you need to list the hidden directories use this command ls -d .*/
find specifiedpath -type d
If you don't want to recurse in subdirectories, you can do this instead:
find specifiedpath -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1
Note that "dot" directories (whose name start with .) will be listed too; but not the special directories . nor ... If you don't want "dot" directories, you can just grep them out:
find specifiedpath -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | grep -v '^\.'
You can use the tree command with its d switch to accomplish this.
% tree -d tstdir tstdir |-- d1 | `-- d11 | `-- d111 `-- d2 `-- d21 `-- d211 6 directories see man tree for more info.
Long listing of directories
ls -l | grep '^d' Listing directories
ls -d */ If I have this directory:
ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nagios nagios 11 août 2 18:46 conf_nagios -> /etc/icinga -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 724930 août 15 21:00 dead.letter -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 12312 août 23 00:13 icinga.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 8323 août 23 00:12 icinga.log.gz drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 août 23 16:36 tmp To get all directories, use -L to resolve links:
ls -lL | grep '^d'
drwxr-xr-x 5 nagios nagios 4096 août 15 21:22 conf_nagios drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 août 23 16:41 tmp Without -L:
ls -l | grep '^d'
drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 août 23 16:41 tmp conf_nagios directory is missing.
### If you need full path of dir and list selective dir with "name" of dir(or dir_prefix*): find $(pwd) -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "SL*" In bash:
ls -d */ Will list all directories
ls -ld */ will list all directories in long form
ls -ld */ .*/ will list all directories, including hidden directories, in long form.
I have recently switched to zsh (MacOS Catalina), and found that:
ls -ld */ .*/ no longer works if the current directory contains no hidden directories.
zsh: no matches found: .*/ It will print the above error, but also will fail to print any directories.
ls -ld *(/) .*(/) Also fails in the same way.
So far I have found that this:
ls -ld */;ls -ld .*/ is a decent workaround. The ; is a command separator. But it means that if there are no hidden directories, it will list directories, and still print the error for no hidden directories:
foo bar zsh: no matches found: .*/ ls is the shell command for list contents of current directory
-l is the flag to specify that you want to list in Longford (one item per line + a bunch of other cool information)
-d is the flag to list all directories "as files" and not recursively
*/ is the argument 'list all files ending in a slash'
* is a simple regex command for "anything", so */ is asking the shell to list "anything ending in '/'"
See man ls for more information.
I put this:
alias lad="ls -ld */;ls -ld .*/"
in my .zshrc, and it seems to work fine.
NOTE: I've also discovered that
ls -ld .*/ 2> /dev/null
doesn't work, as it still prints sterr to the terminal. I'll update my answer if/when I find a solution.
Here's another solution that shows linked directories. I slightly prefer it because it's a subset of the "normal" ls -l output:
ls -1d */ | rev | cut -c2- | rev | xargs ls -ld --color=always I find there are many good answers listed before me. But I would like to add a command which we already use it several time, and so very easy to list all the directories with less effort:
cd
(Note: After cd give a space) and press tab twice, it will list only all the directories in current working directory. Hope this is easy to use. Please let me know if there is any problem with this. Thanks.
This is the answer most people will want.
ls -l | grep -E '^d' | awk '{print $9}' The directory names, and nothing but the directory names.
This has been working for me:
ls -F | grep / (But, I am switching to echo */ as mentioned by @nos)
du -d1 is perhaps the shortest option. (As long as you don't need to pipe the input to another command.)
To list only directories in a specified path,just type
ls -l | grep drw 
