`ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

`ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[TJ Luoma]

Somewhere along the way I learned that

	ls *(.)

will tell 'ls' to only show files (not links, not directories)

Is there a similar command which would show _only_ directories?

(I've been using `find * -maxdepth 0 -type d` but I assume this is
'more efficient')

TjL

Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[Pete Johns]

On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 21:08:39 -0400, TJ Luoma sent:
>Somewhere along the way I learned that
>
>	ls *(.)
>
>will tell 'ls' to only show files (not links, not directories)
>
>Is there a similar command which would show _only_ directories?
>
Unsurprisingly, yes!

    ls -d *(/)

This is described here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/zshexpn

Hope this helps;


--paj

Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[Michael Shick]

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*(/) is the glob you're looking for.  To just list the folders and not their
contents, you'd use `ls -d *(/)`.
On Aug 14, 2011 9:35 PM, "TJ Luoma" <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somewhere along the way I learned that
>
> ls *(.)
>
> will tell 'ls' to only show files (not links, not directories)
>
> Is there a similar command which would show _only_ directories?
>
> (I've been using `find * -maxdepth 0 -type d` but I assume this is
> 'more efficient')
>
> TjL

Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2011-08-14 21:08:39 -0400, TJ Luoma wrote:
> Somewhere along the way I learned that
> 
> 	ls *(.)
> 
> will tell 'ls' to only show files (not links, not directories)
> 
> Is there a similar command which would show _only_ directories?

ls -- *(/)

See "Glob Qualifiers" in the zshexpn man page.

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Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2011-08-15 03:41:37 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-08-14 21:08:39 -0400, TJ Luoma wrote:
> > Somewhere along the way I learned that
> > 
> > 	ls *(.)
> > 
> > will tell 'ls' to only show files (not links, not directories)
> > 
> > Is there a similar command which would show _only_ directories?
> 
> ls -- *(/)
> 
> See "Glob Qualifiers" in the zshexpn man page.

I forgot: you probably also want the -d ls option: ls -d -- *(/)

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Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[TJ Luoma]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> See "Glob Qualifiers" in the zshexpn man page.
>

Thanks to all…

Not to be greedy, but is there a way to get the listing without the
trailing "/"?

(I mean, I know I can get rid of it using `| sed 's#/$##g'` or `| tr -d '\57'`)

TjL

Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[Pete Johns]

On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 22:24:22 -0400, TJ Luoma sent:
>Not to be greedy, but is there a way to get the listing without
>the trailing "/"?
>
    \ls -d *(/)

This does not display a trailing slash. Are you specifying -F
(append file type indicators) in an alias or something?

Regards;

--paj

Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[Pete Johns]

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 01:56:00 -0400, TJ Luoma sent:
>On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Pete Johns <pete@j...> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 22:24:22 -0400, TJ Luoma sent:
>>>Not to be greedy, but is there a way to get the listing without
>>>the trailing "/"?
>>>
>>    \ls -d *(/)
>>
>> This does not display a trailing slash. Are you specifying -F
>> (append file type indicators) in an alias or something?
>
>Aha!
>
>setopt MARK_DIRS
>
>was turned on.
>
Happy to help;


--paj

Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[Sebastian Tramp]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:24:22PM -0400, TJ Luoma wrote:

> > See "Glob Qualifiers" in the zshexpn man page.
>
> Thanks to all…
>
> Not to be greedy, but is there a way to get the listing without the
> trailing "/"?

it sounds for me that you want to use the output for another command so
I suggest to use

print *(/)

instead of using ls (and stumble upon its aliases), this is much more
stable regarding environment changes.

Best regards

Sebastian Tramp

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Re: `ls *(.)` shows "just files", what shows "just folders"?

[Tristan Webb]

Hi Tj,

I'm not sure that this is optimal but I use:

   ls -d *(/)

Tristan
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:08:39PM -0400, TJ Luoma wrote:
> Somewhere along the way I learned that
> 
> 	ls *(.)
> 
> will tell 'ls' to only show files (not links, not directories)
> 
> Is there a similar command which would show _only_ directories?
> 
> (I've been using `find * -maxdepth 0 -type d` but I assume this is
> 'more efficient')
> 
> TjL

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