List Sub-Directories with Ls

List sub-directories with ls

This should help:

ls -d */

*/ will only match directories under the current dir. The output directory names will probably contain the trailing '/' though.

Listing only directories using ls in Bash?

*/ is a pattern that matches all of the subdirectories in the current directory (* would match all files and subdirectories; the / restricts it to directories). Similarly, to list all subdirectories under /home/alice/Documents, use ls -d /home/alice/Documents/*/

Using ls to list directories and their total sizes

Try something like:

du -sh *

short version of:

du --summarize --human-readable *

Explanation:

du: Disk Usage

-s: Display a summary for each specified file. (Equivalent to -d 0)

-h: "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kibibyte (KiB), Mebibyte (MiB), Gibibyte (GiB), Tebibyte (TiB) and Pebibyte (PiB). (BASE2)

How to ls all the files in the subdirectories using wildcard?

3 solutions :

Simple glob

ls */*.pdb

Recursive using bash

shopt -s globstar
ls **/*.pdb

Recursive using find

find . -type f -name '*.pdb'

How do I list all the files in a directory and subdirectories in reverse chronological order?

Try this one:

find . -type f -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sort -nr | cut -d\  -f2-

List of All Folders and Sub-folders

You can use find

find . -type d > output.txt

or tree

tree -d > output.txt

tree, If not installed on your system.

If you are using ubuntu

sudo apt-get install tree

If you are using mac os.

brew install tree

ls -lR * lists all the files in current and subdirectories , but ls -lR *filename* does not list files in subdirectories

According to the man page ls lists information about the filenames specified. The shell (bash, sh, zsh etc) expands the * to a list of filenames, so the command being execute is

ls -lR filename1 filename2 filename3 ...

If one of those filenames is a directory then ls will list it recursively.

In your second case

ls -lR filename

If that filename is the name of a directory, ls will list the contents of the directory recusively, otherwise it will give you details of the file.

To do what you want you will need to do

ls -lR | grep filename

Or use find as you say

How to show subdirectories using SFTP ls command

If there is only one subdirectory I get nothing.

You should only get nothing if the only one subdirectory is empty, because ls if given a single directory argument lists its contents. With the normal ls we could solve this problem simply by means of the option -d, but unfortunately sftp's ls doesn't have that option. The only way coming to my mind is to filter the desired directories from a long listing:

echo "ls -l /path/to/folder" | sftp -i /path/to/key user@host | awk '/^d/{print "/path/to/folder/"$NF}'

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