Thread: question about testing in shell programming

-print is the default. "." is also the default directory. So you can get away with

Code:

find -type d

("d" means of type "directory") or

Code:

find path -type d

Note that find is recursive -- it will show you subdirectories and so on too. If you just want a list of directories in the current directory, you can use something like this.

Code:

ls -l | grep ^d

That gives you the long filename listing, however, which you may not want. If you just want the filenames, you could use something like this:

Code:

for file in *; do [ -d "$file" ] && echo $file; done

I'm sure there's a cleaner way, but if there is, it escapes me at the moment.