Re: ls lacking a feature?

William wrote:
"Bernard Liang" <b_liang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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how does one perform the equivalent MS-DOS's "dir /a:d" (directory
listing) in *ix (say, linux)?

One possibility:

find * -type d -prune

Without the -prune it will show subdirectories too.

-Wm



Another option: -maxdepth 1
.

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