My memory may be failing me.  I'm pretty sure I used '-d' to get a listing
of all entries in the cwd that are marked as directories.  So if I $(mkdir
foo bar baz) and then use 'ls -d' I expect to see "./  ./foo ./bar ./baz".

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Steve Christiansen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 6/25/2018 3:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> According to 'man ls' the -d option should 'list directories themselves,
>> not their
>> contents'. But, here it doesn't work. For example from within ~/:
>>
>> $ ls -d
>> ./
>>
>> $ ls --directory
>> ./
>>
>>   I doubt this is a Slackware issue and I'm curious why it might not be
>> working as expected. Has anyone else run into this issue?
>>
>> Rich
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> Rich,
> It's working as expected.
> "ls" with no arguments lists the contents of the current directory.
> "ls -d" with no other arguments lists the current directory, not its
> contents, which is of course "."
>
> Steve
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