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tree

Show the contents of the current directory as a tree. More information: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/.
  • Print files and directories up to 'num' levels of depth (where 1 means the current directory):
    tree -L {{num}}
  • Print directories only:
    tree -d
  • Print hidden files too with colorization on:
    tree -a -C
  • Print the tree without indentation lines, showing the full path instead (use -N to not escape non-printable characters):
    tree -i -f
  • Print the size of each file and the cumulative size of each directory, in human-readable format:
    tree -s -h --du
  • Print files within the tree hierarchy, using a wildcard (glob) pattern, and pruning out directories that don't contain matching files:
    tree -P '{{*.txt}}' --prune
  • Print directories within the tree hierarchy, using the wildcard (glob) pattern, and pruning out directories that aren't ancestors of the wanted one:
    tree -P {{directory_name}} --matchdirs --prune
  • Print the tree ignoring the given directories:
    tree -I '{{directory_name1|directory_name2}}'

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