Mac OS X equivalent of the Ubuntu "tree" command

Question

Is there an equivalent to the Ubuntu tree command for Mac OS X?

slhck · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-20T07:18:53.660

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You can get the tree command on macOS, too. If you have Homebrew:

brew install tree

If you do not have Homebrew installed, try one approach below.

Installing a package manager approach

Follow the instructions on these websites to install Homebrew, MacPorts, or Fink. Do not install more than one package manager at the same time!

Follow the prompt for whichever you installed.

For Homebrew: brew install tree

For MacPorts: sudo port install tree

For Fink: fink install tree

Installing from source approach

Install the Xcode command line tools by running xcode-select --install.
Download the tree source
Change the Makefile to get it to work, which is also explained in @apuche's answer below. Commenting out the Linux options and uncommenting the macOS options should be enough.
Then, run ./configure, then make.
Now you have to move the tree binary file to a location that's in your executable path. For example:
```
 sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
 sudo cp tree /usr/local/bin/tree
```
Now edit ~/.bash_profile to include:
```
 export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
```
Reload the shell, and now which tree should point to /usr/local/bin/tree.

edited Aug 20 '20 at 07:18

answered Nov 21 '11 at 10:52

slhck

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http://shaunchapmanblog.com/post/329270449/how-to-install-the-tree-command-on-mac-os-x also seems to have detailed instructions but may cause issues with llvm-gcc living under /Developer if you are running Xcode 4.x; a bit of fiddling around should do the trick. – Ahmed Masud Nov 21 '11 at 11:04
@MishaMoroshko Glad it worked. You'll find many programs on Homebrew, so if you ever miss something you had on Ubuntu or thought only Linux can have, Homebrew should help you! – slhck Nov 21 '11 at 22:15
"Problematic" how? – David Moles Jan 21 '15 at 17:54
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@DavidMoles Because simply running make on OS X doesn't work. First, you have to know how to install the Xcode command-line tools (or generally, have some idea about building software) and then you'll find that it errors out on an undefined symbol. So you have to do some adjustments to the makefile (as explained here). Too much hassle IMO. – slhck Jan 21 '15 at 22:04
+1 for clarifying. :) (The Makefile edit is also documented in this answer below, btw.) – David Moles Jan 22 '15 at 17:38
Okay, you do have to install the Xcode Command Line Tools in order to compile programs that you want to install from source on OS X, but because the whole discussion is about a command line tool, namely tree, I would guess that most people have already done that, or can do that very simply. Personally, I hate package managers, so I try to install from source whenever I can. It doesn’t require any more effort to install the Xcode Command Line Tools than it does to install a package manager. Finally, suggesting that people need a package manager to install a simple little program like...

7stud

Apr 09 '15 at 02:32

tree is overkill. 2) In Yosemite 10.10.2, make does not error out--it gives a warning, which I just ignored, and the tree command installed just fine. But, the source code can be easily modified to get rid of the warning. See

comments in the other answer. 3) When you download anything that you want to install, the first step is to read the README file, then the INSTALL file. The INSTALL file for tree asks you to uncomment certain lines in the Makefile depending on what OS you are using. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make that extremely easy. It certainly isn't problematic.

– 7stud Apr 09 '15 at 02:32

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@7stud Many people know a few command line tools for very simple CLI tasks, and they may not know how to compile software. People sometimes struggle to understand what ./configure and make exactly do and why those are needed in the first place. Or they don't want to deal with it. Or read any help files, for that matter. They'd rather do something like apt-get install. It's fine if you prefer installations from source (and I personally do, too), but you have to accept that there are solutions that are perceived easier by others, or perhaps even the majority of normal computer users. – slhck Apr 09 '15 at 06:56

@7stud I amended my answer to include more info for both ways of installing tree. – slhck Apr 09 '15 at 07:06

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People sometimes struggle to understand what ./configure and make exactly do and why those are needed in the first place I've been installing software from source for 15 years, and I have no idea what ./configure and make do. I just know they are steps I need to perform in order to install software. I blindly read the README and INSTALL files, and I do whatever it says. – 7stud Apr 09 '15 at 17:08

This worked, but I had to also do this in order for the link to take effect. – aliteralmind Nov 18 '15 at 17:38

Can you get the tree command to ignore certain file types e.g. *.json? – Dhruv Ghulati Aug 03 '16 at 17:51

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@DhruvGhulati Not that I know of, but you could inverse-grep it. Like tree | grep -v 'json' or similar. – slhck Aug 04 '16 at 08:20

@DhruvGhulati tree --help will list all the options, one of which is -P pattern, which lists only those files that match the pattern, and another is -I pattern which omits the files that match the pattern. So tree -I '*.json' should do what you want. (Btw: I don't know what the pattern syntax is, but I found that this one worked: don't omit the single quotes.) – Steve Powell Feb 28 '17 at 10:33

I installed teee from brew and the file /usr/local/bin/tree do exist, but when I type tree the system say -bash: tree: command not found. What is the problem? Thanks in advance. – Evan Hu Jan 07 '19 at 03:15

@EvanHu When you run echo $PATH, is the /usr/local/bin path in there? Make sure this directory is part of your PATH and that you haven't overwritten it. Also make sure that the tree file is executable. In case of problems please ask a new question. – slhck Jan 07 '19 at 09:49

nonopolarity · Answer 2 · 2014-05-02T13:40:18.843

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Not exactly the same, but one quick way on the Mac is:

find .

and that's it. It will list all file paths in the current directory as a list.

edited May 02 '14 at 13:40

answered May 02 '14 at 13:31

nonopolarity

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If interested in a particular directory: find ./<dir_name> – raspacorp Jul 08 '16 at 22:12
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If only interested in files, find . -type f – Jared Beck Mar 16 '17 at 17:54
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I was only interested in going a few levels deep to show the directory structure so find . -type d -maxdepth 2 worked for me – Matthew Lock Apr 21 '17 at 07:13
Better use find * if you don't want to see hidden files and directories. tree doesn't show hidden files and directories by default. – asmaier May 31 '18 at 14:36
find is a 万金油 tool. – Evan Hu Jan 07 '19 at 03:15
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This will do nicely. Takes the wind out of the sails of those who answer each and every question "How do I install X on the Mac?" with "With homebrew, just say brew X". I never understood why anyone would like to maintain an extra package management system and be dependent on some people packaging things -- but to each his own. – András Aszódi Mar 26 '20 at 10:01

score 28 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 12 '16 at 03:19

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Or if your administrator won't let you install any of the brew, fink, port tools you can always build it from the source :

curl -O ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/tree-1.5.3.tgz
tar xzvf tree-1.5.3.tgz
cd tree-1.5.3/
ls -al

Edit the Makefile to comment linux part and uncomment osx area:

# Linux defaults:
#CFLAGS=-ggdb -Wall -DLINUX -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
#CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -DLINUX -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
#LDFLAGS=-s

# Uncomment for OS X:
CC=cc
CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -no-cpp-precomp
LDFLAGS=
XOBJS=strverscmp.o

Optional: Forcing color output

And while you're at it, if you want to force tree to always colorize the output, you can always edit the main method of the tree.c file and add force_color=TRUE; before setLocale(LC_TYPE,"");

Finally hit make and you're done building tree for mac.

Tribute goes to Shaun Chapman for his original post on his blog.

edited Jan 12 '16 at 03:19

Giacomo1968

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answered Jul 14 '12 at 23:09

apouche

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Couldn't get to Shaun's website; thanks for the heads up on modifying the Makefile. – Paul Nathan Oct 26 '12 at 14:27
Specifically, you can add force_color = TRUE;. No semicolon and you get a compile error. – tgrosinger Sep 06 '13 at 15:55
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I've just built version 1.7 and instead of setLocale its setlocale. So in tree.c, you look for setlocale(LC_TYPE,""); and thanks! – Avi Cohen May 02 '14 at 09:49
Great answer. Can you add a note on how to move it to /bin (or some path so that it can be used globally)? – Khanh Nguyen Oct 10 '14 at 04:57
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FYI, compiling 1.7.0 under Yosemite I got: warning: format specifies type 'long' but the argument has type 'long long'. The fix was to change a format specifier from %9ld to %9lld. – David Moles Jan 21 '15 at 18:02
@KhanhNguyen -- Personally, I put stuff like this in ~/bin, and have a line export PATH=~/bin:$PATH in my ~/.bash_profile. – David Moles Jan 21 '15 at 18:03
@DavidMoles, Same warning here. I ignored it, and sudo make install seemed to work. However, for the recored where is that format specifier? It's not in the Makefile. Ah, I found it in tree.c. – 7stud Apr 09 '15 at 01:42
It's not setLocale, it's setlocale() so you will need to search for the correct term. Installing from source is the way to go. The Install file tells you which lines to uncomment in the Makefile depending on your OS, so it couldn't be easer (you don't have to comment out the Linux options). However, this answer has too many errors. The colorizing seems random to me, so I would just skip it. – 7stud Apr 09 '15 at 01:55

score 25 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 21 '15 at 22:17

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There isn’t a formal tree command per se however you can do this:

Save the following script to /usr/local/bin/tree

#!/bin/bash

SEDMAGIC='s;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'

if [ "$#" -gt 0 ] ; then
   dirlist="$@"
else
   dirlist="."
fi

for x in $dirlist; do
     find "$x" -print | sed -e "$SEDMAGIC"
done

Change the permissions so you can run it:

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/tree

Of course you may have to create /usr/local/bin:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/tree

edited Jan 21 '15 at 22:17

Giacomo1968

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answered Nov 21 '11 at 10:53

Ahmed Masud

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It misses all the options of tree, but still a nice little solution. – slhck Nov 21 '11 at 11:01
@slhck hehe it was a quick hack solution... – Ahmed Masud Nov 21 '11 at 11:05
You might want to quote your variables though. – slhck Nov 21 '11 at 11:12
$x should be $dirlist shouldn't be quoted... because of the special expansion of "$@" – Ahmed Masud Nov 21 '11 at 11:24
@AhmedMasud I referenced this over here: http://superuser.com/questions/532156/how-do-i-print-a-tree-with-files-in-bash-for-windows#comment643537_532156 if you answer there I'll give you the marked answer – jcollum Jan 10 '13 at 23:10
Any idea how to color code the directories to a different color? Or reuse your directory listing colors? – Jen S. Sep 23 '14 at 05:46
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@JenS. of course you can simply change the find command to deal with that – Ahmed Masud Sep 24 '14 at 20:41
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I prefer this SED SEDMAGIC='s;[^/]*/;|-- ;g;s;-- |; |;g' which lines up the subdirectory pipe with the first letter of the parent directory and useds dashes instead of underscores. – Jason S May 24 '20 at 13:36

score 21 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 30 '16 at 16:30

21

You should probably be using homebrew. If you do:

brew install tree

answered Jun 30 '16 at 16:30

nichochar

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score 17 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 16 '17 at 15:06

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I found a simple solution here: http://murphymac.com/tree-command-for-mac/

So adding the following to your .bashrc, .bash_profile or any other place will make it work:

alias tree="find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'"

Now adding a tree command will print like this:

# ~/my-html-app [13:03:45]$ tree
.
|____app.js
|____css
| |____main.css
| |____theme.css
|____index.html

edited Oct 16 '17 at 15:06

Giacomo1968

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answered Oct 09 '16 at 07:34

Shashank Agrawal

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Great little one-liner, but it works for the current directory only – András Aszódi Mar 26 '20 at 10:02
So what are you trying to achieve? – Shashank Agrawal Mar 26 '20 at 14:09
Sometimes I would like to draw a tree of another directory. Like I am in my home dir and want to see what's in, say, /tmp. Please understand that I like the elegance of this one-liner and upvoted your answer, just wanted to point out that this is not a full substitute for the "real" tree command, in case someone were looking for that. – András Aszódi Mar 26 '20 at 17:04
Thanks, @JasonS but I don't see it as the same answer as per the guidelines of StackExchange network. It's way different. – Shashank Agrawal May 25 '20 at 05:57
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@AndrásAszódi you could create a shell function tree () { find $1 -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g' } – Logu Feb 28 '24 at 12:01
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@Logu Impressive, thank you for the suggestion. You get a +1 from me for it. However, the "real" tree can of course do more (print directories only, filter results etc.) I strongly suspect replicating all those would need more than one line ;-) – András Aszódi Feb 28 '24 at 13:09
Yeah, I already have a shell function for that and few days back only, I gave it the name tree1 because like you said, real tree can do a lot more. – Shashank Agrawal Feb 28 '24 at 13:27

jweyrich · Answer 7 · 2013-01-28T08:22:49.837

6

An alternative using find and awk:

#!/bin/bash
find . -print 2>/dev/null | awk '!/\.$/ { \
    for (i=1; i<NF; i++) { \
        printf("%4s", "|") \
    } \
    print "-- "$NF \
}' FS='/'

edited Jan 28 '13 at 08:22

answered Apr 07 '12 at 12:10

jweyrich

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This lines up the subdirectory pipe with the first letter of the parent directory which I much prefer to the SED command repeated in multiple answers, which just indents the subdirectory two spaces, but gives four underlines before the parent directory. I also prefer the dashes. – Jason S May 24 '20 at 13:28

score 3 · Answer 8 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

Adding a small point to @apuche's answer for OSX El Capitan rootless feature. make install fails since we are not allowed to write into /usr/bin directory.

vikas@MBP:~/Downloads/tree-1.7.0$ sudo make install
Password:
install -d /usr/bin
install: chmod 755 /usr/bin: Operation not permitted
install -d /usr/share/man/man1
if [ -e tree ]; then \
        install tree /usr/bin/tree; \
    fi
install: /usr/bin/tree: Operation not permitted
make: *** [install] Error 71
vikas@MBP:~/Downloads/tree-1.7.0$

To overcome this, just edit Makefile to have prefix = /usr/local

score 3 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 08 '12 at 07:30

3

It's not as pretty as gnu tree ... but it's real easy to alias in bash ... You can even add a little color by tacking the G option on to osx's ls color.

alias tree='find . -type d | ls -lARG'

answered Jun 08 '12 at 07:30

Edward J Beckett

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Phrogz · Answer 10 · 2014-11-27T19:24:48.967

Here is a Ruby script solution that produces a nice Unicode tree along with useful metadata.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
def tree_hierarchy( root, &children )
  queue = [[root,"",true]]
  [].tap do |results|
    until queue.empty?
      item,indent,last = queue.pop
      kids = children[item]
      extra = indent.empty? ? '' : last ? '└╴' : '├╴'
      results << [ indent+extra, item ]
      results << [ indent, nil ] if last and kids.empty?
      indent += last ? '  ' : '│ '
      parts = kids.map{ |k| [k,indent,false] }.reverse
      parts.first[2] = true unless parts.empty?
      queue.concat parts
    end
  end
end
def tree(dir)
  cols = tree_hierarchy(File.expand_path(dir)) do |d|
    File.directory?(d) ? Dir.chdir(d){ Dir['*'].map(&File.method(:expand_path)) } : []
  end.map do |indent,path|
    if path
      file = File.basename(path) + File.directory?(path) ? '/' : ''
      meta = `ls -lhd "#{path}"`.split(/\s+/)
      [ [indent,file].join, meta[0], meta[4], "%s %-2s %s" % meta[5..7] ]
    else
      [indent]
    end
  end
  maxs = cols.first.zip(*(cols[1..-1])).map{ |c| c.compact.map(&:length).max }
  tmpl = maxs.map.with_index{ |n,i| "%#{'-' if cols[0][i][/^\D/]}#{n}s" }.join('  ')
  cols.map{ |a| a.length==1 ? a.first : tmpl % a }
end
puts tree(ARGV.first || ".") if __FILE__==$0

You could modify the meta = … line to extract different metadata to display, hand-picking out the split pieces on the next line. With a little more work you could pass arbitrary ls arguments to select the metadata to show.

Sample output (looks nicer in the OS X terminal than the font on Stack Overflow):

phrogz$ tree UCC_IVI/
UCC_IVI/                               drwxr-xr-x  510B  Nov 20 11:07
  ├╴docs/                              drwxr-xr-x  102B  Nov 20 19:21
  │ └╴CANMessages.txt                  -rwxr-xr-x  2.2K  Nov 20 19:21
  │ 
  ├╴effects/                           drwxr-xr-x  204B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ ├╴Depth Of Field HQ Blur.effect    -rwxr-xr-x  2.4K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ ├╴FXAA.effect                      -rwxr-xr-x  1.6K  Nov 17 15:38
  │ ├╴HDRBloomTonemap.effect           -rwxr-xr-x   11K  Nov 17 15:38
  │ └╴SMAA1X.effect                    -rwxr-xr-x  4.4K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ 
  ├╴fonts/                             drwxr-xr-x  136B  Nov 17 15:38
  │ ├╴Arimo-Regular.ttf                -rwxr-xr-x   43K  Nov 17 15:38
  │ └╴OFL.txt                          -rwxr-xr-x  4.3K  Nov 17 15:38
  │ 
  ├╴maps/                              drwxr-xr-x  238B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ ├╴alpha-maps/                      drwxr-xr-x  136B  Nov 17 15:38
  │ │ ├╴rounded-boxes-3.png            -rwxr-xr-x  3.6K  Nov 17 15:38
  │ │ └╴splatter-1.png                 -rwxr-xr-x   35K  Nov 17 15:38
  │ │ 
  │ ├╴effects/                         drwxr-xr-x  136B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ ├╴AreaTex-yflipped.dds           -rwxr-xr-x  175K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ └╴SearchTex-yflipped.png         -rwxr-xr-x  180B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ 
  │ ├╴IBL/                             drwxr-xr-x  136B  Nov 17 15:38
  │ │ ├╴028-hangar.hdr                 -rwxr-xr-x  1.5M  Nov 17 15:38
  │ │ └╴FieldAirport.hdr               -rwxr-xr-x  1.5M  Nov 17 15:38
  │ │ 
  │ ├╴icons/                           drwxr-xr-x  238B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ ├╴icon_climate.dds               -rwxr-xr-x  683K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ ├╴icon_music.dds                 -rwxr-xr-x  683K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ ├╴icon_navigation.dds            -rwxr-xr-x  683K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ ├╴icon_phone.dds                 -rwxr-xr-x  683K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ └╴icon_surroundView.dds          -rwxr-xr-x  683K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ 
  │ └╴materials/                       drwxr-xr-x  102B  Nov 19 17:19
  │   └╴spherical_checker.png          -rwxr-xr-x   11K  Nov 19 17:19
  │   
  ├╴materials/                         drwxr-xr-x  102B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ └╴thin_glass_refractive.material   -rwxr-xr-x  6.0K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ 
  ├╴models/                            drwxr-xr-x  136B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ ├╴BokehParticle/                   drwxr-xr-x  136B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ ├╴BokehParticle.import           -rwxr-xr-x  739B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │ └╴meshes/                        drwxr-xr-x  102B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │   └╴Mesh.mesh                    -rwxr-xr-x  1.1K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ │   
  │ └╴Glass_Button/                    drwxr-xr-x  136B  Nov 19 17:19
  │   ├╴Glass_Button.import            -rwxr-xr-x  1.2K  Nov 19 17:19
  │   └╴meshes/                        drwxr-xr-x  136B  Nov 19 17:19
  │     ├╴GlassButton.mesh             -rwxr-xr-x   44K  Nov 19 17:19
  │     └╴Icon.mesh                    -rwxr-xr-x  1.8K  Nov 19 17:19
  │     
  ├╴scripts/                           drwxr-xr-x  204B  Nov 19 17:19
  │ ├╴App.lua                          -rwxr-xr-x  764B  Nov 17 15:38
  │ ├╴CANSim.lua                       -rwxr-xr-x   29K  Nov 17 15:38
  │ ├╴ObjectWiggler.lua                -rwxr-xr-x  3.7K  Nov 19 17:19
  │ └╴PathWiggler.lua                  -rwxr-xr-x  2.9K  Nov 17 15:38
  │ 
  ├╴states/                            drwxr-xr-x  170B  Nov 19 18:45
  │ ├╴app-camera.scxml                 -rwxr-xr-x  2.4K  Nov 20 11:07
  │ ├╴app-navigation.scxml             -rwxr-xr-x  590B  Nov 19 18:32
  │ └╴logic.scxml                      -rwxr-xr-x  4.2K  Nov 19 18:59
  │ 
  ├╴tests/                             drwxr-xr-x  102B  Nov 17 15:38
  │ └╴interface-navigation.scxml-test  -rwxr-xr-x   83B  Nov 17 15:38
  │ 
  ├╴UCC_IVI.uia                        -rwxr-xr-x  630B  Nov 19 17:32
  ├╴UCC_IVI.uia-user                   -rwxr-xr-x  832B  Nov 20 17:22
  ├╴UCC_IVI.uip                        -rwxr-xr-x  1.5K  Nov 17 15:38
  └╴UCC_Menu.uip                       -rwxr-xr-x   33K  Nov 19 17:19

Thanks very much for the lightweight solution! On OSX 10.9.5 (running stock Ruby 2.0.0), due to a 'no implicit conversion of true into String (TypeError)' error, I had to change the sixth line of the #tree method to read file = File.basename(path) + (File.directory?(path) ? '/' : '') — joel.neely, Jul 16 '16 at 13:33

score 0 · Answer 11 · edited Oct 16 '17 at 15:06

0

Install Xcode
Get Command Line Tools

xcode-select --install

Install Homebrew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install tree

brew install tree

edited Oct 16 '17 at 15:06

Giacomo1968

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answered Feb 21 '17 at 08:29

KunMing Xie

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marshki · Answer 12 · 2021-01-07T17:41:14.340

Late to the game, but I had the same question. Due to workplace restrictions, I couldn't install a package from source or via a third-party package manager.

This is my implementation:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Faux tree command.
#
# Recursive directory/file listing of present working directory (PWD), 
# with summary count of directories and files.
# Argument: 
#   Directory of interest, 
#     e.g.: tree /Users/foo/foo_dir
# Output:
#   Recursive directory/file listing of named directory,
# 
# Argument:
#   Directory of interest, with user-defined level of resursive depth, 
#     e.g.: tree /System/Library 2  
# Output:
#   Recursive directory/file listing of named directory, stopping at 
#   user defined depth of recursion, e.g. 2
tree () {
  [ -n "$2" ] && local depth="-maxdepth $2";
  find "${1:-.}" "${depth}" -print 2> /dev/null | sed -e 's; 
  [^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'
}

Simply add the function to /Users/foo/.profile or .bash_profile, then refresh the profile with: source .profile or: source .bash_profile

I got [^/]*/;|____;g;s; ...": unterminated substitute pattern — phuclv, Apr 28 '21 at 07:33
tried your previous version and it kind of works. You must not have a new line after s; — phuclv, Apr 28 '21 at 07:37

Dr Neo · Answer 13 · 2021-04-26T03:33:54.760

0

Installing broot very interesting command. You will get the following:

Searchability within the opened directory while navigating.
Open your file or document with your default app. (similar to ranger) to exit use (:q)

Install on macOSX using HomeBrew

 brew install broot

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edited Apr 26 '21 at 03:33

answered Apr 11 '21 at 15:43

Dr Neo

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score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Feb 28 '24 at 12:34

0

Improvement over one of the previous answers

tree() {
  dir="${1:-./}"
  [ -d "$dir" ] && find "$dir" -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g' -e 's;____|; |;g'
}

answered Feb 28 '24 at 12:34

Logu

101

Mac OS X equivalent of the Ubuntu "tree" command

14 Answers14

Installing a package manager approach

Installing from source approach

Optional: Forcing color output

Linked