Display folder contents as a tree structure

Sun, 27 May 2007 14:57:28 GMT

A lot of times I had to do acrobatics to be able to display the contents of a UNIX folder as a tree. Well, no more!

Looking for using the ls command in various combinations I found this command gem:

ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'

So for a folder where the standard: ls webapps/hello/ will display this:

WEB-INF   actions   content   pages     public    templates

The new command trick: ls -R webapps/hello/ | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/   /' -e 's/-/|/', will display:

   |---/WEB-INF
   |-----classes
   |---/actions
   |---/content
   |---/pages
   |---/public
   |-----styles
   |---/templates

Neat, eh?

There is also a nice script wrapper for the above command, follow this link for more.

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Display folder contents as a tree structure