Bdtyktl

You can use:

ls -d -- */

Since all directories end in /, this lists only the directories in the current path. The -d option ensures that only the directory names are printed, not their contents.

Stephen Martin's response gave a warning, and listed the current folder as well, so I'd suggest

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d

(This is on Linux; I could not find -maxdepth and -mindepth in the POSIX man page for find)

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

Will list just folders. And as Teddy pointed out you'll need -maxdepth to stop it recusrsing into sub dirs

Daniel’s answer is correct. Here are some useful additions, though.

To avoid listing hidden folders (like .git), try this:

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d  ( ! -iname ".*" )

And to replace the dreaded dot slash at the beginning of find output in some environments, use this:

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d  ( ! -iname ".*" ) | sed 's|^./||g'

You're "not supposed to" parse the output of ls, or so is said. The reasoning behind is that the output is intended to be human-readable and that can make it unnecessarily complicated to parse, if I recall.

if you don't want ls or find, you may want to try filtering "*" with "[ -d ]".

I did just that, for some reason ls and find weren't working (file names with spaces and brackets I guess, or somthing else I was overlooking), then I did something along the lines of

for f in * ; do [ -d "$f" ] && echo $f is indeed a folder ; done

Just to emphasize a thing that confused me out here, in respect to glob patterns selection; say you have this:

$ cd /tmp

$ mkdir testglob

$ for ix in {00,01,02,03} ; do mkdir testglob/mydir_${ix} ; done

$ for ix in {00,01,02,03} ; do touch testglob/myfile_${ix} ; done

$ for ix in {00,01,02,03} ; do touch testglob/mydir_${ix}.txt ; done

$ for ix in {00,01,02,03} ; do mkdir testglob/otherdir_${ix} ; done

$ tree testglob/

testglob/

├── mydir_00

├── mydir_00.txt

├── mydir_01

├── mydir_01.txt

├── mydir_02

├── mydir_02.txt

├── mydir_03

├── mydir_03.txt

├── myfile_00

├── myfile_01

├── myfile_02

├── myfile_03

├── otherdir_00

├── otherdir_01

├── otherdir_02

└── otherdir_03



8 directories, 8 files

So, say here you want to select only mydir* directories. Note that if you leave out the terminating slash, ls -d will list files as well:

$ ls -d testglob/mydir*   # also `ls -d -- testglob/mydir*`

testglob/mydir_00      testglob/mydir_01      testglob/mydir_02      testglob/mydir_03

testglob/mydir_00.txt  testglob/mydir_01.txt  testglob/mydir_02.txt  testglob/mydir_03.txt

... however, with a terminating slash, then only directories are listed:

$ ls -d testglob/mydir*/   # also `ls -d -- testglob/mydir*/`

testglob/mydir_00/  testglob/mydir_01/  testglob/mydir_02/  testglob/mydir_03/

printf "%sn" */ will list all directories in the $PWD.

echo */ will also work, but in a long one-line, more difficult when names have spaces.

You can also use:

du

Or:

git ls-tree -d -r --name-only @

• http://git-scm.com/docs/git-ls-tree


• http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/du.html