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Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
Or you can use the 'tree' command. Probably needs to be installed via fink.
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Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
What we really need is a Finder add-on (or may another view option, Apple?!) that provides the tree navigation like in Windows explorer. This is one of the very few features of Windows that I believe is superior to the options available right now in the Finder.
I am surprised that someone has not figure out how to hack the Finder app to make the sidebar the tree nav, or at least some type of 'drawer' widget attached to Finder windows that provides this navigation.
Path Finder gives you an outline view, which isn't like the tree view in Windows - it's more like the outline view in Mac OS 9 - but it essentially achieves the same thing.
How is that different than List View in OS X?
I'm wondering that too.
it's not
You're right, it's not. Strange, I guess I'd just never used List View that way before. Maybe having Path Finder fill the whole screen (versus small Finder windows) makes browsing that way more inviting.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
I just came up with a truly cheesy way to use the output from tree as an interface to the finder. The tree command gives the output as html. If you open an html file in safari (it would be much better to pipe to it, but I can't figure out how), and click the url to a file on disk, it opens a finder window and highlights the file, rather than opening it in safari. I've always found that behavior irritating, but in this case it can be put to advantage.
It is a truly ugly hack, but maybe someone can make it more elegant. cd to your top directory of choice, then issue The sleep command gives safari some time to open the file before it gets deleted. It would be much nicer to pipe into safari the output of tree than to do this.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
This creates a temporary file just as the above does (though it's handled by the open command, so there's not worry about a wait time and having to clean up the file afterward.
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Display a tree-like structural view of any directory I couldn't get the perl command to work. The top of the tree shows rmtag as the text still. I'm guessing the / after the rmtag is a typo? In any case, I would prefer to have the top of the tree list the full path of the directory in which tree is working:
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Display a tree-like structural view of any directory there's just a backslash missing:tree -H x | sed 's/x///' ... you can get this to work in elinks (any probably other text browsers) with: tree -aH `pwd` | elinks -force-html
as for safari, it doesn't always open local files in the finder (e.g. *.js, *.pl, *.py open fine on 2.0.3). it seems to be restricted to directories and files it would normally download instead of displaying. there should be a way to specify these files (either in safari's Info.plist or through launchservices), but i don't know how.
tree -H x | sed 's/x///' ... ridiculous.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
That actually makes it cleaner. Just do this:
tree -H $PWD > junk.html ; open junk.html ; sleep 6 ; /bin/rm -f junk.html The other was just designed to trim the ./ from the front of the path. This instead appends the true full path, so it is unambiguous as well as much cleaner. Now if only I could pipe it.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
Or even this:
tree -H $PWD > /tmp/$$junk.html ; open /tmp/$$junk.html
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
agreed - great suggestion.
the 'windows explorer' navigation window is the best way to move files around. I love the finder column view generally, but it makes moving files a pain if you have to go up and then down the directory structure, and list view generally takes up too much of the window and again you have to wait to scroll and spring load folders. urg.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
OR just add an alias to your .bash_profile file, something like
alias:' | sed -e 's/://' -e 's/[^-][^/]*//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'
This should run as is. If you have the screen real-estate this is a fun way to look at your Mac. I only added a few lines of this code to call the user. You could modify this to take a direcory as an argument from the terminal or from applescript etc. I changed this to my Documents folder and ran this in BBEdit. It's was blazing fast. In about 7 seconds I got 65,000 lines and with my Mighty Mouse I could easily scroll all over this large page.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
you can also install tree with darwin ports:
sudo port install 'tree'
ls -R | sed -e '/^[^:]*$/d' -e 's/://' -e 's/[^-][^/]*//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
How about just using List View in the finder, then option-clicking the twirly arrow of the directory you need to see the tree structure of? Each time you unfold a folder like this, an extra level of the hierarchy gets displayed.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
That works fine if:
1. You only have one window worth of items to list, and, 2. You don't need the actual text of the item list. The idea behind a utility like 'tree' or the ls/sed pipe in the original hint is that you can get a text-file of the item list.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
While I would probably go with the CLI option too, if you open a Finder window you can select any files in the hierarchy, copy, and then paste the list into a text editor. However, it does seem to have problems with nested files. YMMV.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
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You can also get the UNIX command 'pstree' through fink.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory Mind you, this code falls apart pretty quickly in the face of directories or files that have colons (':') in their name. Case in point, run it on ~/Library and watch the fireworks as it trips over Mail and cache subfolders ;)
There's a simple fix, use find instead:
The additional '-e 1d' sed command gets rid of find always printing '.' and I also tweaked the last sed command for output consistancy.
Oh, not only is this more robust, it's way faster.
Nice tip, I've added it to my toolbelt.
Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
Thanks for this version! I removed the '-type d' flag and added '> ~/Desktop/mytree.txt' to get a text file of not only the directory tree, but also the directory's contents. Just what I needed!
Easily Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
Why not just drag the folder or volume and drop it into a window in BBEdit or TextWrangler? This gives you a nice indented listing of all files in the folder/volume. It takes a while when I do it for my whole hard drive but it works a treat!
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I really try to stay away from the terminal whenever i can this worked great and was immediate unless I included my Applications folder as it shows you every item in each package.
Excellent tip!
I just tried both the original hint's method and using find which was recommended by acet and both methods do not work if the directory contains a space. Any idea how to fix it?
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Display a tree-like structural view of any directory
There is a Finder contextual menu item that can do this, it copies to the clipboard. It's called FileHierToClipCMPlugin (File hierarchy to clipboard) and you can download it at Hsoi's Shop. It doesn't include the '|--' characters but the source is freely available and could be modified to add that.
Actually, technically, the output of this is wrong, as the lines are completely meaningless. Compare the output of this to the output of the 'tree' command (i installed it with darwinports, it's fast!) for any directory a few layers deep and you'll see that the 'left continuation lines' are in multiple layers and actually indicate everything that is still in the same folder (as opposed to this one-liner where they are just decorative). It's actually tough to keep track of that kind of thing using a one-liner.
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what do you mean the lines are wrong? Every '--' represents a new level. All that it would take to make the output about the same would be to replace strings of more than two --'s with vertical pipe symbols instead of hyphens. This is hardly difficult... just pipe the result fo this back into sed, or modify the original a bit.
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Display a tree-like structural view of any directory I cant get this to work? Any hints anyone? Dog
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