tree

tree is a utility that displays an ascii-art formatted tree of a directory structure. you can use it to get a quick glance of your files. tree is the equivalent functionnaly of GNU tree which can be found on many recent Linux systems. tree is much simpler and doesn't provide as many features.

features

Some interesting features of tree:

• no warnings in lint
• no compile-time warnings, even with aggressive options
• no expensive color support
• no useless HTML output support
• use of fts_ functions

screenshot

(pyr@phoenix) tree$ tree
.
|-- CVS
|   |-- Entries
|   |-- Repository
|   `-- Root
|-- Makefile
|-- foo
|   `-- bar
|-- tree.1
`-- tree.c

2 directories, 7 files

download

The latest release is tree 0.61
Tree is now in the OpenBSD ports tree.

manpage

tree(1)

author

tree was written by Pierre-Yves Ritschard <pyr@spootnik.org> in order to ease the life of his debian coworkers addicted on stupid non POSIX utilities.