How to list directories "above" working directory

My professor showed me how to list the directories above the current working directory using the cd command. I thought it was cd ..[tab] but this lists commands in my current directory.

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I am assuming you just want to list directories on the parent of the current directory, you can use find:

find .. -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name '..'

Alternately, you can use ls:

ls -p .. | grep '/$'

Or shell:

echo ../*/

or elaborately:

for i in ../*; do [ -d "$i" ] && echo "$i"; done

Or in zsh using glob qualifier / (redundant though :)):

echo ../*(/)

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cd .. navigates to directory above your current working directory in the tree.

For example,

home:$ pwd
/home
home:$ cd ..
:$ pwd
/

As for listing directories in the parent directory, heemayl's answer sufficiently covers that. I'll just throw in another one:

 stat ../* --format="%n %F" | awk '/directory/' 

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If you want to list contents of "above" working directory (parent directory) use:

ls ..

However, it shows both files and directories of the parent folder.

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