all. I’m looking for a quick and dirty way to generate some diagrams of some directories that have almost, but not exactly, the same hierarchy, so I can show them around at a meeting and we can decide which flavor we like best. I’m not interested in the “leaf” nodes, just the directories.
The catch: I don’t want to mess with X. This is a server system I deal with entirely through SSH. So I’m looking for something that will do ASCII layout, maybe with simple pipes-and-hyphens for lines or something.
Does anyone know of such a utility? I’m sure I could write something myself, but it’s such a fiddly little sort of project, with handling spacing and layout and such; I’d really like to discover that someone’s done it for me. Alas, Google doesn’t seem to know of such a thing…or if it does, it’s hidden beneath heaps of excellent visual explications of the standard general Unix file hierarchy. Thanks!
I would use tree.
$ tree -d /usr|head -n 12 /usr |-- X11R6 | `-- lib | `-- X11 | `-- wily |-- bin | `-- X11 -> . |-- games |-- i586-mingw32msvc | |-- bin | |-- include | | |-- GL
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