How to Limit Depth for Recursive File List?
Is There a Way to Limit the Depth of a Recursive File Listing in Linux? the Command I'm Using at the Moment Is: Ls -laR > Dirlist. Txt but I've Got About 200...
Is there a way to limit the depth of a recursive file listing in linux?
The command I'm using at the moment is:
ls -laR > dirlist.txt
But I've got about 200 directories and each of them have 10's of directories. So it's just going to take far too long and hog too many system resources.
All I'm really interested in is the ownership and permissions information for the first level subdirectories:
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/domain1.co.uk
drwxr--r-- 14 jon root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/
drwxr--r-- 14 jon root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/domain2.co.uk
drwxr-xrwx 14 proftp root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/
drwxr-xrwx 14 proftp root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/domain3.co.uk
drwxr-xr-- 14 jon root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/
drwxr-xr-- 14 jon root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/domain4.co.uk
drwxr-xr-- 14 jon root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/
drwxr-xr-- 14 jon root 1234 Dec 22 13:19 /var/www/vhosts/
EDIT:
Final choice of command:
find -maxdepth 2 -type d -ls >dirlist
4 Answers
Checkout the -maxdepth flag of find
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec ls -ld "{}" \;
Here I used 1 as max level depth, -type d means find only directories, which then ls -ld lists contents of, in long format.
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Make use of find's options
There is actually no exec of /bin/ls needed;
Find has an option that does just that:
find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -ls
To see only the one level of subdirectories you are interested in, add -mindepth to the same level as -maxdepth:
find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -ls
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