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1. #LIST DIRECTORY CONTENTS THAT DISPLAYS ONLY FILE NAMES FULL#
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1 abhishek abhishek 16 Nov 7 18:22 Documents/another_dir/ĭrwxrwxr-x. Here's an example where I move out of the Documents directory and then list only the directories inside Documents directory: t ~]$ ls -ld Documents/*/ĭrwxrwxr-x. In this situation, you can use */ at the end of the path of the directory with ls -d: ls -d Path/To/Dir/*/ What if you are not in the same directory? The above command works in the current directory. List only subdirectories in a specific directory 1 abhishek abhishek 44 Nov 7 18:22 my_dir 1 abhishek abhishek 16 Nov 7 18:22 another_dirĭrwxrwxr-x. If you do not want the trailing slash (/) at the end of the directory names, you can use the cut command to cut it out: Documents]$ ls -ld */ | cut -f1 -d'/'ĭrwxrwxr-x. 1 abhishek abhishek 44 Nov 7 18:22 my_dir/

1 abhishek abhishek 16 Nov 7 18:22 another_dir/ĭrwxrwxr-x. You may combine it with long listing option -l and most other options: Documents]$ ls -ld */ĭrwxrwxr-x. This picture depicts the difference pretty well. With *, you list all the content (including contents of the subdirectories) and the / restricts the pattern to directories. The -d option list directories not its contents (which includes file, directories etc). Why */? Because without it, ls -d will only return the directory name. Here's the output it shows: Documents]$ ls -d */ To list only the subdirectories, use the -d option with ls command like this: ls -d */ It is always good to do it with the familiar ls command because this is the command you use for displaying the content of a directory. Here's the content of the directory I am going to use in the examples here: Use ls command to list directories only Listing only the directories is no different:ĭon't worry. Like anything in Linux, there are several ways to accomplish the same task.

To print the name of the current working directory, use the command pwd.The ls command in Linux is used for listing the contents of any directory.īy default, it lists all the contents, be it a file or a directory or a link or a named pipe.īut what if you want to list only the directories? How do you that?

#LIST DIRECTORY CONTENTS THAT DISPLAYS ONLY FILE NAMES FULL#

It is typically printed as the full path to the directory (meaning that you can see the parent directory). Your current working directory is the directory where your commands are being executed. Useful Bash Commands to Manage Directories and Files Print Current Working Directory ( pwd) The results of the commands below on your computer will be slightly different, depending on your operating system and how you have customized your file system. Note: In the examples on this page, the indented lines that follow a prompt and do not start with a dollar sign ($) are the output of the command. When typing commands (either from this textbook or from other sources), do not type the dollar sign (or other character prompt). Recall that depending on your computer’s set-up, you may see a different character as a prompt and/or additional information before the prompt, such as your current location within your computer’s file structure (i.e. Chapter 19: Intro to Functions in Python.Chapter 17: Conditional Statements in Python.

#LIST DIRECTORY CONTENTS THAT DISPLAYS ONLY FILE NAMES CODE#