Re: unix command question

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"David A. Barbour" wrote:

> 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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