Why does listing the folders in unix take such a long command? [duplicate]

Question

What can I do to map ls -l | grep ^d to lsf? I am wading around in the mess of files and folders and trying to just see the folders so it's easier to cd ... around to places.

Answer 1

This should do it good sir

alias lsf='ls -l | grep ^d'

to add permanent, do this

echo "alias lsf='ls -l | grep ^d'" >> ~/.bash_profile

Answer 2

If you are using a decent shell (i.e. ZSH) you can do

ls -d *(/)