Now back in the day, I remember a version of DOS or Windows that introduced the tree command that allowed one to produce a pseudo-graphical listing of a file-system.
This nice picture from Wikipedia shows the concept: -
Well, I'd missed that on macOS ...
Now I miss it no longer ....
'twas a simple installation: -
brew install tree
and now: -
which tree
/usr/local/bin/tree
tree --version
tree v1.8.0 (c) 1996 - 2018 by Steve Baker, Thomas Moore, Francesc Rocher, Florian Sesser, Kyosuke Tokoro
tree --help
usage: tree [-acdfghilnpqrstuvxACDFJQNSUX] [-H baseHREF] [-T title ]
[-L level [-R]] [-P pattern] [-I pattern] [-o filename] [--version]
[--help] [--inodes] [--device] [--noreport] [--nolinks] [--dirsfirst]
[--charset charset] [--filelimit[=]#] [--si] [--timefmt[=]<f>]
[--sort[=]<name>] [--matchdirs] [--ignore-case] [--fromfile] [--]
[<directory list>]
------- Listing options -------
-a All files are listed.
-d List directories only.
-l Follow symbolic links like directories.
-f Print the full path prefix for each file.
-x Stay on current filesystem only.
-L level Descend only level directories deep.
-R Rerun tree when max dir level reached.
-P pattern List only those files that match the pattern given.
-I pattern Do not list files that match the given pattern.
--ignore-case Ignore case when pattern matching.
--matchdirs Include directory names in -P pattern matching.
--noreport Turn off file/directory count at end of tree listing.
--charset X Use charset X for terminal/HTML and indentation line output.
--filelimit # Do not descend dirs with more than # files in them.
--timefmt <f> Print and format time according to the format <f>.
-o filename Output to file instead of stdout.
------- File options -------
-q Print non-printable characters as '?'.
-N Print non-printable characters as is.
-Q Quote filenames with double quotes.
-p Print the protections for each file.
-u Displays file owner or UID number.
-g Displays file group owner or GID number.
-s Print the size in bytes of each file.
-h Print the size in a more human readable way.
--si Like -h, but use in SI units (powers of 1000).
-D Print the date of last modification or (-c) status change.
-F Appends '/', '=', '*', '@', '|' or '>' as per ls -F.
--inodes Print inode number of each file.
--device Print device ID number to which each file belongs.
------- Sorting options -------
-v Sort files alphanumerically by version.
-t Sort files by last modification time.
-c Sort files by last status change time.
-U Leave files unsorted.
-r Reverse the order of the sort.
--dirsfirst List directories before files (-U disables).
--sort X Select sort: name,version,size,mtime,ctime.
------- Graphics options -------
-i Don't print indentation lines.
-A Print ANSI lines graphic indentation lines.
-S Print with CP437 (console) graphics indentation lines.
-n Turn colorization off always (-C overrides).
-C Turn colorization on always.
------- XML/HTML/JSON options -------
-X Prints out an XML representation of the tree.
-J Prints out an JSON representation of the tree.
-H baseHREF Prints out HTML format with baseHREF as top directory.
-T string Replace the default HTML title and H1 header with string.
--nolinks Turn off hyperlinks in HTML output.
------- Input options -------
--fromfile Reads paths from files (.=stdin)
------- Miscellaneous options -------
--version Print version and exit.
--help Print usage and this help message and exit.
-- Options processing terminator.
I can even get a tree in JSON format ....
tree -J
[{"type":"directory","name": ".","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"pom.xml"},
{"type":"directory","name":"src","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"main","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"java","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"com","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"dave","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"app","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"App.java"}
]}
]}
]}
]}
]},
{"type":"directory","name":"test","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"java","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"com","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"dave","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"app","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"AppTest.java"}
]}
]}
]}
]}
]}
]},
{"type":"directory","name":"target","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"classes","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"com","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"dave","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"app","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"App.class"}
]}
]}
]}
]},
{"type":"file","name":"daves-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar"},
{"type":"directory","name":"generated-sources","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"annotations","contents":[
]}
]},
{"type":"directory","name":"generated-test-sources","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"test-annotations","contents":[
]}
]},
{"type":"directory","name":"maven-archiver","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"pom.properties"}
]},
{"type":"directory","name":"maven-status","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"maven-compiler-plugin","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"compile","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"default-compile","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"createdFiles.lst"},
{"type":"file","name":"inputFiles.lst"}
]}
]},
{"type":"directory","name":"testCompile","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"default-testCompile","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"createdFiles.lst"},
{"type":"file","name":"inputFiles.lst"}
]}
]}
]}
]},
{"type":"directory","name":"surefire-reports","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"TEST-com.dave.app.AppTest.xml"},
{"type":"file","name":"com.dave.app.AppTest.txt"}
]},
{"type":"directory","name":"test-classes","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"com","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"dave","contents":[
{"type":"directory","name":"app","contents":[
{"type":"file","name":"AppTest.class"}
]}
]}
]}
]}
]}
]},
{"type":"report","directories":32,"files":13}
]
Do I need that ? No, but who cares !! I CAN!!
Colour me happy 😂😂😂
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