On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:47:08AM +0530, Mario Michael da Costa wrote:
> > >The following alias will list just 
> > >the directories in a directory and 
> > >not other ordinary files. It will 
> > >list a directory as a directory even 
> > >if the directory is a symbolic link.
> > >
> > >alias dir='ls -Lla|grep ^d'
> 
> ls -F | grep /
> works for me. never tried with symbolic links to directories though.

My way is:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(26) type -a ld
ld is a function
ld ()
{
    ls -lF $* | grep ^d
}
ld is /usr/bin/ld

(I don't use /usr/bin/ld from the command line).

Advantages? I can give command line arguments, like:

ld /var /usr/local /opt
ld -g /var

The above don't work in the alias.

Binand

-- 
Russian Roulette with Unix:
while :; do kill $RANDOM &> /dev/null && break || sleep 1; done


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