[PLUG] ls -d does not work as it should

[Michael Rasmussen]

On 2018-06-25 16:18, Steve Christiansen wrote:
> On 6/25/2018 3:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
>> According to 'man ls' the -d option should 'list directories 
>> themselves, not their
>> contents'. But, here it doesn't work. For example from within ~/:
>> 
>> $ ls -d
>> ./
>> 
>> $ ls --directory
>> ./
>> 
>>   I doubt this is a Slackware issue and I'm curious why it might not 
>> be
>> working as expected. Has anyone else run into this issue?
>> 
>> Rich
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> 
> Rich,
> It's working as expected.
> "ls" with no arguments lists the contents of the current directory.
> "ls -d" with no other arguments lists the current directory, not its
> contents, which is of course "."

To expand that on that correct response,

try ls -d */

for an edited example:
michael$ ls -d */
Documents
Downloads
Finance
Pictures
   ...



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