Questions tagged [tree]
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Is there a way to make tree not show the top level?
By default, tree shows this:
$ tree
.
├── Package.resolved
├── Package.swift
├── Sources
│ └── SwiftClientSDK
│ ├── OpenAPI.yaml
│ ├── SwiftClientSDK.swift
│ └── openapi-generator-...
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Tree display hw, hw.cpp & hw.cpp2 in sub-directories
I would like tree to display the hw files in the sub-directories like this:
.
├── exp
│ └── hw
├── src
│ └── hw.cpp2
└── tmp
└── hw.cpp
$ /usr/bin/tree --noreport . displays all of the files:...
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Command "tree -J" returns invalid Json
I gave the command tree -J to my machine, and this is a portion of the output it gave:
{
"type": "file",
"name": &...
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Using 'TREE' for sub-subdirectories
Is it possible to use tree to create several output files without being cd ~/ into the directory I want to create a tree file?
For example, I have a directory called parent-dir.
Inside of parent-dir ...
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tree command to only output file and directory count?
I want to keep only the last line of tree's output or the file+directory count report. Preferably, with the -a switch.
An example output I desire:
585 directories, 37722 files
Is this possible with ...
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Is it possible to colourise the heading lines on bash tree output?
Say I have a directory structure that looks like this:
foo
|-- bar
| |-- 1
| |-- 2
| |-- 3
| |-- baz
| | |-- 4
| | |-- 5
| | |-- 6
| | |-- moo
| | | |-- 7
| | | |-- ...
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Tree. What is the location of the generated text file?
Ubuntu. Tree.
tree -fi /path/to/the/directory >~/file.txt
I see the files in terminal but was under the impression that a text file called 'file.txt' would be generated, but I can't find it.
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Autocompletion not working for pass password manager in zsh in linux
I already used pass program for password managing on MacOS with zsh (where the autocompletion worked flawlessly out of the box) and now trying to move on linux on a raspberry pi 4b 4GB, installed zsh ...
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How to use the tree command to expand only selected folder(s)?
I'm creating a script that generates a project folder into another folder along with some other module folders. I want to show how the generated project folder structure looks in the final tree but ...
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tree command how to omit too many subfolders?
I want to preview the structure of a folder with tree -d. However, some subfolder has too many subfolders, which prevent me to preview the whole tree at a glance, so I want a argument such as --...
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Creating .info files to be used with tree
man tree1 states:
-info Prints file comments found in .info files. See .INFO FILES below for more information on the format of .info files.
and further
.INFO FILES
.info files are similiar to ....
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How to create a file for every directory on a tree?
For the following tree structure:
.
└── dir1
└── dir2
└── dir3
What would be a simple way to create a file (could be empty), for every directory, so the resulting tree will look like:
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tree command with icons
We all love the tree command, but it would be amazing to have the icons next to the files, as both the file browser of VSC or Color Ls have.
Does anyone know any way to implement it?
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Display `grep -lr` results as a tree
I'm searching a large number of text files which are organized in various subdirectories. I can run a command such as grep -lr foobar ./, and I get results like the following:
./dirA/dirA.A/abc.txt
./...
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How Do I Get `tree` to Selectively Exclude Contents of Directories?
I'm using tree on a directory which has -- among other things -- some Audacity projects in it. Each Audacity project is some file X.aup, along side a directory X_data, which contains a few sub-...
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Print structured list to command-line (tree like)
If I have a text-file with a structured list like this:
#linux
##audio
###sequenzer
####qtractor
###drummachine
####hydrogen
##scores
###lilypond
###musescore
##bureau
###kalender
####calcurse
###...
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What does the output `d?????????` in `ls -l` mean? [duplicate]
What is the situation why ls -l returns a list of subdirectories in the form below?
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? Subdirectory
A tree launched on that directory returns 0 directories, 0 files for ...
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tree command: Can you prevent the formatting dependancy on the final item?
I am using tree and diff to compare a local directory with a USB backup version of the same directory, and to identify noteworthy / discardable differences.
$ cd home/dir/
$ tree --charset=ascii -af . ...
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What does this wecho command do?
I found a script that makes a file list. The list looks like this
/home/usr/example_directory
/home/usr/example_directory/file1.txt
/home/usr/example_directory/file2.txt
/home/usr/different_directory
/...
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ls to recurse, showing full path
There are obviously many ways to do the same job in Linux, but I recently needed to for i in xxx through a list of each item, recursively in a tree. I found a solution with tree by doing tree -fail (...
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tree: Is there a way to maintain visibility of outer level directory labels when scrolling?
When you generate a tree for a large directory base with innumerable sub-directories and associated files, with -a option, often you get a large file with thousands of lines. While traversing the tree ...
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How to detect which files are created when running a command
I'm trying to understand what files or build artifacts are created by the build system of a C++ project.
There are 3 steps to building this project:
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
Is there a way I ...
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Directory structure for large amount of files [closed]
I have millions of files which filenames are SHA256 hashes of the content. Due to performance reasons I do not want to store them in a single directory. My idea is to have directory structure based on ...
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How to use tree with grep and find to locate files by name?
How can I use tree and either grep or find in conjunction to find, for example, csv files using ".csv" as a file extension:
├── ./Videos
├── ./vscode
│ ├── ./vscode/foo.csv
│ ├── ./...
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Efficiently turn a directory tree into a new filesystem on zfs
I "inherited" management of a system, whose "/opt" (and some other large directory trees) are stored in the root file system.
My wish now is to create a new filesystem in the rpool ...
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Print only files, directories containing files and empty directories
I am trying to index some LTO tapes (and some hard disks as well) and would like a simple output, stored in a text file. Something like the example below:
...
/home/norg/Desktop/empty\ dir/
/home/norg/...
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Show files modified after a particular date ('find') in hierarchical format ('tree')
I'm trying to view files modified before or after a certain date using the hierarchical output of the Unix tree command.
For example, I know that one can use tree to sort files chronologically and ...
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How to find files greater than a size in linux [duplicate]
I want to find user, size, modified date and full file path of all files in sub-directories starting from a dir. I have got to following so far:
nohup sudo \
tree /work/mydir \
-sufiD \
--noreport \
--...
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Tree structures and directories [closed]
I need to draw the tree structure of the following code.
cd /; mkdir a b c a/a b/a; cd a; mkdir ../e ../a/f ../b/a/g; cd../b/./; mkdir /a/k a/b ../a/./b /c
I know that: cd /; (goes to root) , mkdir ...
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`tree` horizontal display
Is there an alternative to tree command (or some way using the tree command itself) to print the directory structure horizontally?
Quite often, I have a tree structure, for which I have to scroll a ...
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What is a "path name component"? [duplicate]
I am not sure I correctly understood what is a path name component (or perhaps better written; path name-component) which I understand to be commonly abbreviated simply as "component" in the Unix &...
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What is the most basic "depth" of any "container file"?
I use the term "container file" to describe any file which practically contains one file or two or more files. Some examples would be a tar archive or a directory.
Let's say I open a tar archive with ...
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How to draw a continuous line in terminal?
I've been searching for this for a while and didn't get a satisfactory answer for it.
I've taken this screenshot from the output of Gnu/Linux's tree command.
I want to know how to draw or print ...
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List files recursively, in alphabetical order and without lines that show exclusively folder names
How to list files recursively, in alphabetical order and without lines that show exclusively folder names?
For example, I can get the following output with tree --dirsfirst -fihan * -o filelist:
00.-...
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Easiest way to get `+` indented `tree` output
I need to replace indentation in tree output with + signs so that instead of this:
$ tree --noreport dir
dir
├── dir1
│ ├── file1
│ └── file2
└── dir2
├── file1
└── file2
it'd print this:...
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Confused about "tree" not finding a file
Why the last tree is not finding fstab?
tree /etc -P fstab --prune
/etc
└── fstab
0 directories, 1 file
.
tree /etc -P fsta* --prune
/etc
└── fstab
0 directories, 1 file
.
tree /etc -P *...
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du + tree command (without tree installation)
is there a nice way to combine:
ls -R | grep "^[.]/" | sed -e "s/:$//" -e "s/[^\/]*\//--/g" -e "s/^/ |/"
(displays directory as tree)
with
du -h ... (for each listed dir)
Without installing any ...
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Exclude subdirectory pattern for the tree command not working
I'm trying to use the tree command to list my current git directory.
I want to exclude every files that match a gitignore pattern.
The solution found here seems promising.
Unfortunately it seems ...
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Copying files from specific subsubdirectories based on subdirectory name into single directory then renaming
So here's an excerpt of my directory tree:
|-- 20070214_014700.a
| |-- info
| |-- processed
| |-- HH.EL..BHZ
| |-- AZ.AS..HHZ
| |-- (hundreds more)
| |-- raw
| ...
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How to get an output results as text to more than one location at once? [duplicate]
Is there a way that I can get a resulted output to multiple locations at the same time. ls -RsgorCh >> /Users/User1/Text1.txt will print the output as a text file in the given location. I want ...
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How to shorten image sequence output in tree command?
I'm in a directory where running tree command produces something like this:
├── directory1
│ └── image_sequence
│ ├── image.0001.jpg
│ ├── image.0002.jpg
│ ├── image.0003.jpg
│ ...
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Using tree with tar.gz file without extracting contents
I am wondering if it's possible to output the contents of a tar.gz file using tree without having to extract the contents of the file to a temp directory then using tree with that directory.
I know ...
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How to convert `iptables -S` output to a breadth-first listing
I'm looking for a program that takes the output of iptables -S and converts it to a breadth-first listing.
Why? I'm doing some work on a router using VyOS where several layers of tables are pre-...
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Command "tree" vs "tree -R"
So I'm asking myself why there is the "-R" argument for the "tree" command.
The manual says "-R Recursively cross down the tree each level directories ...", but I don't see any difference in the ...
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pipe of tar and tree commands?
I would like to see the tree of a big compressed file (specifically only the second level of directories) so I used the following command:
tar -tf tarfile | tree -L 2
But it outputs the tree of the ...
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Why can't tree fully list /sys/class/hwmon? And how could I do that?
If I understand correctly, in Linux, everything is a path, right down to each piece of hardware. I am trying to get information about how my sensors are structured, so I thought I would just use tree ...
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Ambiguous output from tree with respect to symbolic links
Whenever I use command line tools, I like to make sure that the output can be interpreted unambiguously. On one of my other machines, I wrote a shell script that would find all of the symbolic links ...
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tree(1) colours not properly interpeted by watch(1) even with --color option
I am using a simple combination of commands to "monitor" a bit of my filesystem change: watch and tree.
Except I want colours and can't get it.
Here's what I thought should work: watch --color 'tree -...
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Directory tree listing, script does not work in csh?
ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'
I found a command to display directory tree (see above), it didn't work correctly. It gave error message "...
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Tree command package installation?
I tried to use the tree command in a bootable USB Ubuntu environment but it showed that it is not installed so I tried sudo apt install tree, but it didn't work and reported that it was unable to ...
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