FAQ, a suggested clarification

[davidson]

FAQ Item 17, "ls -d does not list directories!", located here

 
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#ls-_002dd-does-not-list-directories_0021

includes the following rhetorical exchange:

> But I expected to see all of the directories.

> That would be the output of `ls -l' without the -d option.

I imagine many people asking this particular frequent question are
trying to list all *and only* the names of directories in the current
directory, in which case a more suitable suggestion is `ls -ld */', or
simply `ls -d */'.

Appending, to the dialogue above, the following exchange would be a
simple way to incorporate it:

> But I expected to see all *and only* the directories.

> That would be the output of `ls -ld */', or just `ls -d */'.