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How to get a linux directory listing for files beginning with a certain letter that doesn't descend into subdirectories?

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Mar 15, 2026118875 views
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Suppose you are in a directory that contains many files and many subdirectories. You want to get a directory listing of all the files beginning with the letter "d". You type and what you get back is mostly files in sub-directories (in particular, files in subdirectories that begin with "d"). How do…

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ls d*

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Ah, I just found it on the 6th reading of the man page. It's the not-so-sensibly named "directory" parameter

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