How to list folders using bash commands?

Question

Is there any way to list just the folders in a directory using bash commands? ( as the ls command lists all the files and folders )

Answer 1

You can use:

ls -d -- */

Since all directories end in /, this lists only the directories in the current path. The -d option ensures that only the directory names are printed, not their contents.

Answer 2

Stephen Martin's response gave a warning, and listed the current folder as well, so I'd suggest

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d

(This is on Linux; I could not find -maxdepth and -mindepth in the POSIX man page for find)

Answer 3

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d

Will list just folders. And as Teddy pointed out you'll need -maxdepth to stop it recusrsing into sub dirs