Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3149 mails)

[Adam Johansson <adam.johansson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:08, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
> I can be brain dead but isn't "ls -d" suppose to show the directories
> only. When I give "ls-d all" I get back is nothing 
> 
> toganm@earth:~/projects/sfnet/suse/faq_sgml> ls -ld
> drwxr-xr-x    7 toganm   users         784 Aug  2 12:31 
> 
> toganm@earth:~/projects/sfnet/suse/faq_sgml> ls -d
> .
> 
> toganm@earth:~> ls --version
> ls (fileutils) 4.1
> 
> the info page of ls says
> 
> `-d'
> `--directory'
>      List just the names of directories, as with other types of files,
>      rather than listing their contents
> 
> So why do I get nothing when I issue 'ls -d' 

One could easily think that the purpose of -d would be to only display
directories, but as I tried the following in a directory with subdirs;

"ls -ad *"  I got the normal listing of all files but not the recursive
listings of the subdirs.

"ls -a *"  gives me the complete listings of files recursively.


Just my 0.02$

Cheers!
/Adam

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