Listing directories only without slash

[James]

Suppose I have
dirs: aa bb cc
files: ff gg

$ ls -d *
aa bb cc ff gg

$ ls -d */
aa/ bb/ cc/

How do I list directories only without slash at the end?

TIA
James

[connor]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:33:04 -0700 (PDT), James <hsle...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm sure there are better ways but you could use tr to delete the slash:

$ ls -d */ | tr -d \/

You could also explore the use of find:

$ find . -type d -print

Cheers,
Gary

[Lew Pitcher]

connor wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:33:04 -0700 (PDT), James <hsle...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sure there are better ways but you could use tr to delete the slash:
>
> $ ls -d */ | tr -d \/
>
> You could also explore the use of find:
>
> $ find . -type d -print

Try
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print
to limit yourself to only those directories in CWD (that is, /not/ list
subdirectories of directories in CWD)

> Cheers,
> Gary
>>Suppose I have
>>dirs: aa bb cc
>>files: ff gg
>>
>>$ ls -d *
>>aa bb cc ff gg
>>
>>$ ls -d */
>>aa/ bb/ cc/
>>
>>How do I list directories only without slash at the end?
>>
>>TIA
>>James

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[Helmut Waitzmann]

James <hsle...@yahoo.com>:

Using the shell:

set '' */ && shift &&
for d
do
set '' "$@" "${d%/}" && shift 2
done &&
ls -d -- "$@"

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Lew Pitcher <lew.p...@digitalfreehold.ca>:

> connor wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:33:04 -0700 (PDT), James <hsle...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure there are better ways but you could use tr to delete the slash:
>>
>> $ ls -d */ | tr -d \/
>>
>> You could also explore the use of find:
>>
>> $ find . -type d -print
> Try
> find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print
> to limit yourself to only those directories in CWD (that is, /not/ list
> subdirectories of directories in CWD)

Or, if your find does not understand -maxdepth (which is not
defined by POSIX as far as I know), you might use -prune instead:

find -L -- * ! -type d -o \( -prune -exec ls -d -- '{}' + \)

[Janis Papanagnou]

Another shell variant (tested with ksh, bash, zsh)...

set -- */ ; printf "%s\n" "${@%/}"


Janis

>
> TIA
> James
>

[Janis Papanagnou]

Or maybe

set -- */ ; [[ -d "$1" ]] && printf "%s\n" "${@%/}"

(to not show a '*' in case of no directories to display).

>
> Janis
>
>>
>> TIA
>> James
>>
>

[Rakesh Sharma]

find . -type d ! -name . -prune

will print all the directories in the current dir.

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Rakesh Sharma <shar...@hotmail.com>:

> On Thursday, 6 April 2017 04:45:13 UTC+5:30, Helmut Waitzmann wrote:

> find . -type d ! -name . -prune
>
> will print all the directories in the current dir.

Correct.

But if I understand the OP correctly, it is not exactly, what James
wanted. He asked for the output of

$ ls -d -- */

but with the trailing slashes removed. Admittedly, his example is
not complete: It contains neither a directory name (other than
“.” or “..”) starting with a dot nor a symbolic link referring to
a directory.

$ PS2='? '
$ mkdir -- test && cd test &&
? mkdir -- aa bb cc .dd &&
? ln -s -- . ee &&
? touch -- ff gg &&
? ls -d -- */
aa/ bb/ cc/ ee/

$ find . -type d ! -name . -prune
./bb
./.dd
./aa
./cc

$ find -L -- * ! -type d -o \( -prune -exec ls -d -- '{}' + \)
aa bb cc ee

[Rakesh Sharma]

You are very right. But I was trying to point out that the '-o' can be dispensed with...

find -L -- * -type d -prune -exec ls -d -- '{}' +

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Thank you for the clarification. I think, both forms are
equivalent with respect to the question, which filenames will be
supplied to the invocation of “ls”.