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To list directories, replace -f with -d.
To list directories, replace -f with -d.
=Variations=


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Revision as of 23:33, 5 December 2019

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Overview

To list files:

local dir=...

for f in ${dir}/*; do
  [[ -f ${f} ]] && echo -n "$(basename ${f}) "
done

To list directories, replace -f with -d.

Variations

find: To further research, it seems the following approach does not work because if there is more than one directory, the first iteration assigns a multi-line to d:

for d in $(find ${dir} -name "*-something" -type d); do
  debug "d: ${d}"
  ...
done

ls: Same for ls, $(ls ...) produces multi-line output.go