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Mac OS X equivalent of the Ubuntu "tree" command

Is there an equivalent to the Ubuntu tree command for Mac OS X?
Misha Moroshko
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Tree command list one level all files

How can I use the tree command to list current directory as a tree? If I do tree -L 1 It only lists the directories, how can I get it to show the files as well?
Nix
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Windows 10 Powershell tree command, how to show files

How do I list folders and files using the PowerShell tree command? Is it possible to color format the output for distinct files and folders?
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Create symlinks recursively for a whole tree

I am seeking for a command that would re-create a whole tree of files in a different directory. I would prefer to have all symlinks absolute. Can I do that with a find and xargs? ;-)
lzap
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linux tree command limit number of files displayed in each directory

I want to use tree (or similar) to see the directory structure of a given directory as well as whether each subdirectory has files in it. So, how could I use tree but limit the maximum number of files to display in a given subdirectory? If it can't…
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Ignore multiple folders using tree

The command tree -I 'node_modules' prevents the node_modules folder from appearing in the output. Likewise, tree -I 'app/ui/bower_components' prevents app/ui/bower_components from appearing in the output. However, tree -I 'node_modules' -I…
Jon
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List contents of tarball in tree format

Per the answers here I'm able to list the contents of my tarball in ls format. However, I'd like to be able to list them in tree format, i.e. something like the latter instead of the former: With tar: $ tar -tf foo.tar…
Vasu
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Ubuntu's ls can show unicode characters, but tree cannot, even with tree --charset unicode

Ubuntu 10.04's ls can show unicode characters, but tree cannot, even with tree --charset unicode or utf8. Is there a way to solve it. echo could interpret the escape characters except cat list.txt | echo -e won't work (list.txt comes from tree >…
nonopolarity
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On Windows 7, dir or tree can't show unicode characters, even starting cmd with cmd /U

On Windows 7, dir or tree can't show unicode characters, even starting cmd with cmd /U So I would press Window Key + R to run something, and type in cmd /U so that the content might handle Unicode. And then using dir or tree /F, the content in…
nonopolarity
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How to exclude multiple file extensions in tree?

When using the tree command, I'd like to exclude listing *.png and *.svg from the output. The problem is that every bracket expansion I try doesn't work. Is it because of how tree processes commandline arguments? tree -I *.{svg,png} tree -I…
Hagbard Celine
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linux: is tree -i -f -L $depth supposed to be faster than find -maxdepth $depth?

I am querying specific directories to see if I find files with a specific pattern in them and I have been trying it with two different commands: Standard find command: find -L $unix_dir\*/ -maxdepth $maxdepth -name \"$filepattern\" and a tree and…
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Why don't ANSI symbols work in PuTTY/Debian?

The awesome application tree, which I installed in Debian with apt-get install tree, has the option of drawing its output using ANSI graphics. Its output looks like this now: . tqq node_modules x tqq coffee-script x tqq eco x tqq express x …
Hubro
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How can I store Windows "tree" command output in a file and retrieve it again?

When I do a tree > somefile.txt the file indeed contains the output of the tree command, but the lines drawn in the console are displayed as accented letters ÃÄÄÄ. Which encoding or mode do I have to use to display such an output file correctly and…
Andrew J. Brehm
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Diagramming tool to edit a binary tree

I would like to create a diagram of a binary decision tree. What free tool will make that easy?
Hannes de Jager
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Cannot view all the output from Windows command

I entered the following in cmd: cd C:/Windows/System32 Then I ran the tree command. For some reason, when I scroll up I cannot view the complete command :( I counted and it only shows the last 298 lines. Does cmd have some kind of limit or…
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