It's commands like awk, grep, xargs and troff that give UNIX a bad
name.  I read somewhere (more years ago than I'd care to recall) that
you should always beware of an operating system with commands that
sounded like bad bodily functions.

Jared Still wrote:
> 
> Haven't seen this one mentioned yet:
> 
> find . -type d -print | xargs ls -ld
> 
> Jared
> 
> On Tuesday 01 May 2001 19:55, David A. Barbour wrote:
> > ls -Ra | grep /
> >
> > That's ls -Ra 'pipe' grep /
> >
> > You know, the spell checker has fits with the stuff on this list.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David a. Barbour
> > Oracle DBA, OCP
> >
> > Roy Ferguson wrote:
> > > what I would like to see is all directories...not files starting with a
> > > particular letter but all directories...
> > >
> > > ls -d   - doesn't work
> > > ls -ld p*  - doesn't work either
> > >
> > > >Roy,
> > > >
> > > >You could do say ls -ld p* to list the directories starting with p.
> > > >
> > > >Rgds,
> > > >
> > > >raja
> > > >--
> > > >
> > > >On Tue, 01 May 2001 13:35:46
> > > >
> > > > Roy Ferguson wrote:
> > > >>what is the ls command to view only a list of directories?
> > > >>
> > > >>ls -la lists both files and directories...I want to view only a list of
> > > >>directories...
> > > >>
> > > >>environment is sun sparc solaris 2.6
> > > >>
> > > >>thanks in advance
> > > >>
> > > >>roy
> > > >>
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