1.3 tree

tree – list contents of directories in a tree-like format

1.3.1 Synopsis

1.3.2 Description

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files. With no arguments, tree lists the files in the current directory.

1.3.3 Options

Some of the options:

• -l

  By default, when a symbolic link is encountered, the path that the symbolic link refers to is printed after the name of the link in the format:

  name -> real-path

  With this option, if the symbolic link refers to an actual directory, then tree will follow the path of the symbolic link as if it were a real directory.

• -L level

  Max display depth of the directory tree.

• -a

  Print hidden files.

• -o filename

  Send output to filename.

• -p

  Print the file type and permissions for each file.

• -s

  Print the size of each file in bytes.

• -h

  Print the size of each file in a human readable way.

• --du

  For each directory report its size as the accumulation of sizes of all its files and sub-directories (and their files, and so on). It implies -s.

• -D

  Print the date of the last modification time.

• --sort[=]type

  Sort the output by type instead of name. Possible values are: ctime, mtime, size, version.

• --dirsfirst

  List directories before files.

• -C

  Turn colorization on always.

• -X

  Turn on XML output.

• -J

  Turn on JSON output.

1.3.4 Examples

1.3.5 Author

Steve Baker (ice@mama.indstate.edu)
HTML output hacked by Francesc Rocher (rocher@econ.udg.es)
Charsets and OS/2 support by Kyosuke Tokoro (NBG01720@nifty.ne.jp)