how to list recursive dirs only using ls

[Dark Atheist]

atm im trying

ls * >> list.txt but its only going 2 folders deep - i require 3 maybe 4 and just to list the dirs - not their content

using -R lists the files before anyone says - i did try that, and yes i have also done man ls 🙂

 

[LordOfLA]

hmm "find . -type d" should do the trick for you 🙂

 

[falconguard]

ls -R ~/dir

 

[LordOfLA]

that won't do what he wants 🙂

my find command will 🙂

 

[zeke_mo]

ls -R ~/dir

that won't do what he wants 🙂

my find command will 🙂

Yeah stupid...geez






:lick:

 

[Dark Atheist]

thanks lord, was looking at the tree option also, will try your suggestion out in a bit, if it works and if i can reps will be coming your way, if i cant you get a cookie 🙂

 

[Geffy]

It varies from OS to OS but you sometimes need to include the -print option in find to have it print out the things it finds. Also if you have directories with spaces in them you can use -print0 to have find print a NULL byte at the end of each found item. This is mainly useful for teaming with "| xargs -0".

 

[X-Istence]

My solution is cooler than the find solution proposed above:

ls -Rl * | egrep -E "^d........" | rev | awk '{ print $1 }' | rev

However, that won't list full paths of the directories involved, and can cause duplicates.

ls -Rl / | grep ".*/.*:$" | sed "s/\:$//"

Lists just directories as found by ls.

 

[Dark Atheist]

thanks X - although i guess i should have put the dir i wanted to list n there instead of the / - as i only require one folder and its sub dirs not the whole filesystem 😛

 

[X-Istence]

So replace / with the directory.

 

[Dark Atheist]

i did