List of All Folders and Sub-folders

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In Linux, I want to find out all Folder/Sub-folder name and redirect to text file

I tried ls -alR > list.txt, but it gives all files+folders

Use the `find` command. `find . -type d` – lit Mar 15 '18 at 15:54 — lit, Mar 15 '18 at 15:54

Adem Öztaş · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-11T05:40:53.260

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You can use find

find . -type d > output.txt

or tree

tree -d > output.txt

tree, If not installed on your system.

If you are using ubuntu

sudo apt-get install tree

If you are using mac os.

brew install tree

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answered Feb 12 '13 at 07:42

Adem Öztaş

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In this Option , is there an Option to exclude one single folder... I have a ~snapshot folder in it, which I want to exclude? – Sandeep540 Feb 12 '13 at 09:57
find . -type d -name ~snapshot -prune > output.txt – Sandeep540 Feb 12 '13 at 10:17
It is great ! And how can we order it by alphapetic order ? – sangorys Sep 09 '16 at 09:28
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@sangorys you can use sort like this `find . -type d |sort > output.txt` – Adem Öztaş Sep 18 '16 at 07:39
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This solution doesn't list softlink subdirectories – sanya Mar 02 '17 at 12:35
`brew` is not standard on MacOS; you have to install that separately. – tripleee Dec 11 '18 at 06:19

Amber · Answer 2 · 2013-02-13T03:29:15.637

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find . -type d > list.txt

Will list all directories and subdirectories under the current path. If you want to list all of the directories under a path other than the current one, change the . to that other path.

If you want to exclude certain directories, you can filter them out with a negative condition:

find . -type d ! -name "~snapshot" > list.txt

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answered Feb 12 '13 at 07:42

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My preference is "du|less" (or "du | cut -f 2|less") ... but your solution is better :) – paulsm4 Feb 12 '13 at 07:45
In this Option , is there an Option to exclude one single folder... I have a ~snapshot folder in it, which I want to exclude? – Sandeep540 Feb 12 '13 at 09:27
@Sandeep540 Sure. `find . -type d ! -name "~snapshot" > list.txt` – Amber Feb 13 '13 at 03:27

Tony Delroy · Answer 3 · 2013-02-12T09:05:51.000

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As well as find listed in other answers, better shells allow both recurvsive globs and filtering of glob matches, so in zsh for example...

ls -lad **/*(/)

...lists all directories while keeping all the "-l" details that you want, which you'd otherwise need to recreate using something like...

find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;

(not quite as easy as the other answers suggest)

The benefit of find is that it's more independent of the shell - more portable, even for system() calls from within a C/C++ program etc..

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answered Feb 12 '13 at 08:53

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In this Option , is there an Option to exclude one single folder... I have a ~snapshot folder in it, which I want to exclude? – Sandeep540 Feb 12 '13 at 09:58
@Sandeep50: in zsh, yes: `setopt EXTENDED_GLOB`, then `ls -lad **/*~**/~snapshot(/)`. Details: from `man zshall` / "x~y (Requires EXTENDED_GLOB to be set.) Match anything that matches the pattern x but does not match y. [...]". (There's also "^x (Requires EXTENDED_GLOB to be set.) Matches anything except the pattern x. [further explanation of slightly different syntax + example]") – Tony Delroy Feb 13 '13 at 01:54

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