Create a Tree-View of a Directory on Linux with ‘tree’

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This post shows you how to create a tree-view of a directory on Linux (Ubuntu).

Install and Use Tree

To create a tree view of a directory install tree by running sudo apt install tree

Type tree in the directory you’d like to list:

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Type tree -d to just get directories:

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Create this Directory

The demo tree structure was created using these commands:

mkdir ~/treedemo

cd ~/treedemo/

mkdir dir1

mkdir dir2

mkdir dir3

cd dir1

touch file1.txt

touch file2.txt

touch file3.txt

cd ../dir2

touch file4.txt

Type rm -rf ~/treedemo to remove the treedemo directory.

Reference

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