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I have a folder with some directories and some files.

for d in *; do
 echo $d
done

will loop through all files, but I want to loop only through directories. How do I do that?

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You can specify a slash at the end to match only directories:

for d in */ ; do
    echo "$d"
done
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Note that it also includes symlinks to directories. – Stephane Chazelas Aug 14 at 16:09
so how would you exclude symlinks then? – rubo77 Aug 14 at 22:55
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@rubo77: You can test with [[ -L $d ]] whether $d is a symbolic link. – choroba Aug 14 at 23:00
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You can test with -d:

for f in *; do
    if [[ -d $f ]]; then
        # $f is a directory
    fi
done

This is one of the file test operators.

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Note that it will include symlinks to directories. – Stephane Chazelas Aug 14 at 16:12
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You can use pure bash for that, but it's better to use find:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo {} \;

(find additionally will include hidden directories)

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Note that it doesn't include symlinks to directories. You can use shopt -s dotglob for bash to include hidden directories. Yours will also include .. Also note that -maxdepth is not a standard option (-prune is). – Stephane Chazelas Aug 14 at 16:11

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