Generating textual representation of directory contents

Question

I'm looking for a script to generate the graphical-ish textual representations of directory structures that you see around. Something that I can run like this:

james@computer:/.../basedir$ listdir .
basedir
|-firstsubdir
| |-file
| `-subsubdir
|   |-file1
|   |-file2
|   |-file3
|   `-file4
`-secondsubdir

james@computer:/.../basedir$

Presumably an established script exists? Must I write it?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '09 at 17:54

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tree (on Windows as well as Linux - might require a apt-get install tree or similar on Linux).

Type tree /? (windows) or man tree for the command line options.

answered Dec 28 '09 at 17:54

ChristopheD

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There we go! Works like a charm. Now why did that not appear in my diligent Google searching? – jameshfisher Dec 28 '09 at 18:17
For those just discovering `tree`, two useful flags are `-d` (list directories only) and `-L` (specify the number of levels to recurse). – Louis Thibault Oct 13 '16 at 19:10

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 28 '09 at 17:53

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Use tree command under Windows and Linux.

http://malektips.com/xp_dos_0040.html

http://www.centerkey.com/tree/

answered Dec 28 '09 at 17:53

Hamish Grubijan

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Generating textual representation of directory contents

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