Use ls to find only files or only directories

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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

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How find only files (or only directories) with ls in the linuxes.

Files only

ls -l | grep "^-"
-rw-r--r--@  1 eriks  wheel  1430 May  1  2015 Config.js
-rw-r--r--@  1 me  us  5768 Jan  1  1970 Gruntfile.js
-rw-r--r--@  1 me  us  1215 Jan  1  1970 README.md
-rw-r--r--@  1 me  us  3925 Jan  1  1970 devel.html
-rw-r--r--   1 me  us  1414 Jan 25 14:50 index.html
-rw-r--r--@  1 me  us   267 Jan  1  1970 package.json
-rw-r--r--@  1 me  us  4088 Jan  1  1970 tour.xml

Directories only

ls -l | grep "^d"
drwxr-xr-x@  4 me  us   136 Jan 26 14:58 css
drwxr-xr-x@  7 me  us   238 Apr  2  2015 dist
drwxr-xr-x@ 30 me  us  1020 May 14  2015 images
drwxr-xr-x@  6 me  us   204 Jan 25 13:46 js
drwxr-xr-x   7 me  us   238 Apr  2  2015 node_modules
drwxr-xr-x@ 21 me  us   714 Jan 27 11:48 templates
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 me  us   442 Apr  2  2015 vendor

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