#directory ls

[techdog]

Listing Directories in Linux

The magical incantation in linux for listing the directories in the current directory seems to be this:

$ ls -d */

The -d switch supposedly lists "directory entries instead of contents," but I don't understand why this command only returns a dot representing the current directory:

$ ls -d

I also don't understand why this command includes file names & directory names in the output:

$ ls -d *

I would have thought that all 3 commands would return the same list of directory names only.

This compound command also lists directory names only:

$ ls -l | grep '^d'