bash find directories

Question

I am new to bash scripts. I'm just trying to make a script that will search through a directory and echo the names of all subdirectories.

The basis for the code is the following script (call it isitadirectory.sh):

     #!/bin/bash

     if test -d $1
         then
                echo "$1"
     fi

so in the command line if I type

       $bash isitadirectory.sh somefilename 

It will echo somefilename, if it is a directory.

But I want to search through all files in the parent directory.

So, I'm trying to find a way to do something like

           ls -l|isitadirectory.sh

But of course the above command doesn't work. Can anyone explain a good script for doing this?

Solution 1

Following lines may give you an idea...what you are asking for

#!/bin/bash

for FILE in `ls -l`
do
    if test -d $FILE
    then
      echo "$FILE is a subdirectory..."
    fi
done

You may have a look into bash 'for' loop.

Solution 2

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d

Solution 3

In the particular case you are looking for a 1) directory which you know the 2) name, why not trying with this:

find . -name "octave" -type d

Solution 4

try to use

find $path -type d ?

for current directory

find . -type d

Solution 5

find ./path/to/directory -iname "test" -type d

I found this very useful for finding directory names using -iname for case insensitive searching. Where "test" is the search term.

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Comments

[Lynch]

ls -l will not work. Also consider using * instead of parsing ls output (Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls).