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by theword

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Hi.
How do you get a listing of the major directories from the command prompt at root level? You know the /dev, /etc/, /home, and all the rest. The ls -al command does'nt do it, so there must be a way?
Thanks,,,Pat

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by stephen darlington

I can only assume that by "it doesn't work" you mean that it lists files as well as directories.

Try:
ls -la / | grep ^d

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