btree

An implementation of (part of) tree in Bash. (Hopefully this follows the 80/20 rule)

https://bitbucket.org/telemachus/btree

There's also a POSIX-friendly branch with no bashims. Check it out if you prefer shells other than Bash. (That version can't do colors, but otherwise, it's functionally equivalent to this one.)

Description

btree works pretty much like its grownup cousin, tree. It prints out a lightly graphic ASCII tree of one or more directories. It can also do minimal colorization (blue for dirs and green for executables).

Usage

btree [-h|--help|-?] [-C] [-L num] [directory ...]

Options

-h|--help|-? Print a man page

-C Colorize the output

-L num Limit the number of sub-directories to visit

Bugs and Limitations

I haven't found any bugs yet, but I'm sure that they're in there. Please let me know if you find one.

tree gives the final item in a directory listing a different bit of ASCII art than all the other items. It's a nice touch. btree can't detect the last item in a given directory as such, so all items look the same. This is a shame, but I wasn't able to figure out a solution without doing way too much work for this project.

Credit and copyright

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010-2014, Peter Aronoff. See LICENSE for details.