I have wrote a post stated that there are no direct ways to list just directories, and wrote a bash scripts using find to list the directories. I had made a WRONG statement. We can list just directories with ls -d, thanks to Ntropia who leaves me a comment. Before that I had tried hard to use ls -d to list just directories but failed, therefore I wrote a bash script uses find to do that. It seems Ntropia provided a better solution and it is straight to the point, so let just treat the previous post as examples of find command. The simplest way of list just directories ls -d */ You can list the directories start with letter b ls -d b*/ Further more list the subdirectories of the directories start with letter b ls -d b*/*/ The outcome will be look like this backup/10-5-2007/ backup/lunatic/ bin/gdc/ backup/ccbe/ backup/wplbe/ bt/王力宏 - 改变自己/ backup/full/ bin/ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20051216/ Bare in mind the command lines above do not list out the hidden directories, to list hidden directories ls -d .*/ Yes, you can also list with details, and with nice colors. ls -d .*/ -l Manual of ls should at lease gives a line of example on how to list just directories, ls capable of doing that but it seems to like easter egg for me. Updates In fact, I had done the post of list just directories long time ago, :P Related Posts list only directories I am searching for ls option that allow me to list only directories. I just want to list the directories but not other f... ls is a very powerful command, but in its simplest forms it really seems counterintuitive. For example: ls As you would expect it, lists the current directory contents. ls * Lists the contents of all the subdirectories of the current directory (?) ls -a The same as ls, but including hidden contents. ls -d ls -ad Just a dot! Hardly useful. ls -d * ls -ad * The man page says “-d list directory entries instead of contents [...]“. But this just gives the same as ls. The -a switch *does not* include hidden contents. ls -d */ ls -ad */ Just the directories, but not the hidden ones. The man and info pages don’t mention the slash trick, so I don’t know how is one supposed to learn it. I could go on and on. One of the reasons I use mc for file management is the complexity of ls and find. Maybe the dir command should have been for a simpler, user-friendly version of ls instead of an alias.

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