you could use find: find ./ type d > some.file
Wes ____________________________________ Wesley A. Wannemacher Instructor, Network Administrator Northwestern College [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Kae [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 9:45 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: quick directory question Hello, I am trying to list all the directories in a directory and put it into a file. So far I have : $ ls -all -F | grep /$ | awk '{print $8}' ./ ../ .netscape/ mail/ which almost gives me what i want but i need to get rid of that / at the end, can someone help me out? If anyone has an easier way, can you let me know? Thanks PS. I feel a little embarrased asking such a simple question but o well =) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null