[Gllug] Locating Subdirectories

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Jul 28 07:23:21 UTC 2004


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Stig Brautaset moaned:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:51:12AM +0100, Mick Farmer wrote:
>> Dear GLLUGers,
>> 
>> I need to obtain the names of all the subdirectories in the
>> current directory.  I'm currently using the following.
>> 
>> 	find * -type d -maxdepth 0
> 
> find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -printf "%f\n"

Why -printf, not just -print?

(Or, with GNU find, nothing at all as the operation, as -print is the
default?)

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