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“tree” Command on Mac OS X

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So, I have been drawing the ASCII file structure tree by hand lately… and that is dumb and time consuming. After digging around, I found a great way to do so.

First, if you don’t have Homebrew, install it first.

Run the following command to install the tree command:-

brew install tree

Now, you can run the following command to create a tree:-

tree [directory]

For example:

tree testMe

… generates:-

testMe
├── src
├── testMe.iml
└── web
    ├── WEB-INF
    │   ├── lib
    │   └── web.xml
    └── index.jsp

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3 responses to ““tree” Command on Mac OS X”

  1. Vamsi Kurukuri Avatar
    Vamsi Kurukuri

    Is there a way to specify the depth

    1. Choon-Chern Lim Avatar

      Yes, you can specify -L option. For example, tree -L 1 will show depth of 1.

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