lk/basics/tree.md

title	tags
tree	basics tree markdown

The tree utility outputs a full listing of everything in your current directory, and those below.

• Just directories: tree -d
• Output colour to less: tree -C --info | less -re
• Ignore files in the .gitignore file: tree --gitignore

You can place information about the files in a directory to use with the tree --info option, like this:

config
	Config files.
	This is a git submodule.
README.md
	Summary of the git.
*.jpg
	Little picture, does not display
	words well.

Each description-line starts with a tab.

Markdown Conversion

To represent a file structure as a nested series of markdown lists, you can try this horrifying sed one-liner:

tree -tf --dirsfirst --gitignore --noreport --charset ascii  | \
    sed -e 's/| \+/  /g' \
    -e 's/[|`]-\+/ */g' \
    -e 's:\(* \)\(\(.*/\)\([^/]\+\)\):\1[\4](\2):g'