Got an alias for "ls"? Try: unalias ls ls -d */ The -d says don't treat directories specially (normally ls lists directory _contents_ if a directory is named).
I do have an alias for ls, but it's simply to add color. I did the unalias and get the same results. Now with the one you have listed here, I do get the directories. Even when I source my .bashrc back to get the alias back, it still works as expected. So the alias is not affecting my ls beyond adding color. Is the command $ls [^.]*/ working as expected for you, listing only directories in your current directory? I'm fairly comfortable with the basics of bash and some intermediate bash but I hadn't played with globbing much. In reading up on it I'm left with the impression that the command above would list all files not starting with a period ([^.]), then the wildcard * (so could be anything at all), followed by the / (which doesn't seem to do anything). Even if it did work, would it not exclude any directory starting with a period? But that aside, does it work (or not work) for anyone else? I have GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Thanks, Jacques
