PowerShell analog to "dir /a:d" (Win) or "ls -d */" (Bash)

This works too:

ls | ?{$_.PsIsContainer}

There is no doubt that it is a little more wordy than bash or cmd.exe. You could certainly put a function and an alias in your profile if you wanted to reduce the verbosity. I'll see if I can find a way to use -filter too.

On further investigation, I don't believe there is a more terse way to do this short of creating your own function and alias. You could put this in your profile:

function Get-ChildContainer
{
    param(
            $root = "."
          )
    Get-ChildItem -path $root | Where-Object{$_.PsIsContainer}
}

New-Alias -Name gcc -value Get-ChildContainer -force

Then to ls the directories in a folder:

gcc C:\

This solution would be a little limited since it would not handle any fanciness like -Include, -Exclude, -Filter, -Recurse, etc. but you could easily add that to the function.

Actually, this is a rather naive solution, but hopefully it will head you in the right direction if you decide to pursue it. To be honest with you though I wouldn't bother. The extra verbosity in this one case is more than overcome by the overall greater flexibility of powershell in general in my personal opinion.

Try:

ls | ? {$_.PsIsContainer}

dir -Exclude *.*

I find this easier to remember than

dir | ? {$_.PsIsContainer}

Plus, it is faster to type, as you can do -ex instead of -exclude or use tab to expand it.