[COMMAND LINE] Display structure of directory hierarchy
Let's say you're working on the terminal and want to display current's directory hierarchy in a tree structure, like this: $ tree.sh .kde/share/apps/krita/ /home/wilson/.kde/share/apps/krita . |-paintoppresets |-templates |---CMYK |---Ink |---WS |-workspaces I found the command below on the web and its author even provided it as a shell script to use it easily. ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/' Install system wide Open a terminal window and run: dst="/usr/local/bin/tree.sh" && sudo wget http://goo.gl/z8exN -O $dst && sudo chmod +x $dst Install for current user This will install the script for your user only and assumes you have a bin directory on your home directory and it has been added to $PATH . Open a terminal window and run: dst="$HOME/bin/tree.sh" && wget http://goo.gl/z8exN -O $dst ...