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tree — Show the contents of the current directory as a tree. More information: <https://manned.org/tree>.

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Problem

How to use the tree command: Show the contents of the current directory as a tree. More information: <https://manned.org/tree>.

Solution

tree — Show the contents of the current directory as a tree. More information: <https://manned.org/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}}'

Code Snippets

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

Context

tldr-pages: common/tree

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