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Generating textual representation of directory contents

I'm looking for a script to generate the graphical-ish textual representations of directory structures that you see around. Something that I can run like this:

james@computer:/.../basedir$ listdir .
basedir
|-firstsubdir
| |-file
| `-subsubdir
|   |-file1
|   |-file2
|   |-file3
|   `-file4
`-secondsubdir

james@computer:/.../basedir$

Presumably an established script exists? Must I write it?

Solution

  • tree (on Windows as well as Linux - might require a apt-get install tree or similar on Linux).

    Type tree /? (windows) or man tree for the command line options.