Listing only directories in UNIX

Question

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?

Answer 1

Long listing of directories

• ls -l | grep '^d'
• ls -l | grep "^d"

Listing directories
- ls -d */

Answer 2

Try this:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

Answer 3

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 *(/)

Answer 4

### 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*"

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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