Listing only directories in UNIX

Question

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 *(/)

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

ls -l | grep '^d'

You can make an alias and put it into the profile file

alias ld="ls -l| grep '^d'"

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name [^\.]\* | sed 's:^\./::'