maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (05/25/90)
In article <8188@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: )In article <14108@cgl.ucsf.EDU> pett@cgl.ucsf.edu (Eric Pettersen) writes: ): ): Sorry, but writing a perl script to list only directories and not ): plain files is a bit of overkill when the command "ls */" will do the same ): thing. ) )And it's NOT overkill when the command "ls */" WON'T do the same thing. But is IS overkill when the command "ls */." WILL do the same thing. :-) -- Antique fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood. |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam: Modern fairy tale: Oswald shot Kennedy. |maart@cs.vu.nl, uunet!cs.vu.nl!maart
venables@sicsws14.sics.bu.oz.au (venables) (05/25/90)
In article <1990May24.173733.7493@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL writes: ... > >Someone else suggested just 'ls */'--that sure doesn't work for me >in either sh or csh. > In csh try "ls -d */". The "-d" is necessary to suppress recursive listing of directory contents.