I'm not sure I am using ZSH's globbing correctly, but I thought ls *(/) would just list the dirctories under pwd, but it doesn't, it recursively lists all files under every directory under pwd (I got the statement from this list of useful zsh tips)
What would be right globbing for exclusively listing the directories under my current path?
I suspect the problem is not the zsh globbing, but the ls default behavior, that when given a directory argument list the content of directory.
I suggest to try
ls -d -- <your-glob-here>
The best way to test your globs is with
printf '%s\n' <glob>
or
print -rC1 -- <glob>
ls -d -- *(/)
Yet another way to achieve it is
print *(/)
or
echo *(/)
Update1
A bit more correct version (as noted by @Stéphane Chazelas) would be
print -rl -- *(/)
or
echo -E - *(/)
to take care about spaces (-l), escape sequences (-r/-E) and leading hyphens (--/-) inside filenames.
Update2
Yet even more correct version is print -rN which additionally takes care of linebreaks inside filenames (linux allows them, windows doesn't) by separating the results with nulls, for example:
print -rN -- **/*(/) |xargs -0 -n10 chmod g+s
which recursively sets setguid bit - selectively addressing directories, as opposed to chmod -R g+s.
Update3
For huge trees this only processes a part of files (due to the limit on command line length) and silently leave the rest as is. The following commands can handle this situation:
find . -type d -print0 |xargs -0 -n10 chmod g+s
print -rl -- *(/) or echo -E - *(/). Without -r/-E, print/echo expand escape sequences. The -l option to print prints one argument per line. See also -c (optionally with -a) to print in columns
To list all directories in the current directory type
ls -d -- *(/)
ls -d *(/)
Otherwise use
ls -d */**(/)
to list all directories recursivley.
