Listing only directories using ls in Bash?

Question

This command lists directories in a current path: ls -d */

What exactly does a pattern */ do?

And how can we give an absolute path in the above command (e.g. ls -d /home/alice/Documents) just to list only directories in the path?

Answer 1

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

 ls -d /home/alice/Documents/*/

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