in reply to Re^2: Most effective bash to perl for directory listing
in thread Most effective bash to perl for directory listing

Is there a way to get glob to output just the directory names but not their entire paths (without just regexing it)

No. But regexing it isn't hard:

perl -E"say for map{ s[$ARGV[0]/][]; $_} glob qq[$ARGV[0]/*]"

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are you aware of any resources that instruct specifically on useful shorthand alternatives

Erm. There was a thread a few years called something like Cheap idioms that had some.

Typing "idioms" into the search box top left brings up some similar threads.

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