I wonder if there is a tool that will list file / directory (i.e. take a snapshot of the folder and file structure) like the following:
audio
mp3
song1.mp3
some other song.mp3
audio books
7 habits.mp3
video
samples
up.mov
cars.mov
in other words, in a tree structure.
The Unix command ls -R or ls -lR can do something similar, except it won't list it indented in a tree structure
In both Windows and Linux there is a command called tree.
In windows, the tree command (or tree /A /F) creates something like this:
├───plugins
│ ├───dbcopy
│ │ └───util
│ ├───mssql
│ │ └───gui
│ ├───oracle
│ │ └───gui
│ ├───refactoring
│ │ └───gui
│ └───sqlscript
│ └───prefs
└───test
In Ubuntu 10.04 you have to install tree with sudo apt-get install tree
In linux it looks like this (tree -a /)
| | |-- graphics
| | | `-- fbcon
| | | |-- cursor_blink
| | | |-- power
| | | | `-- wakeup
| | | |-- rotate
| | | |-- rotate_all
| | | |-- subsystem -> ../../../../class/graphics
| | | `-- uevent
These are just small snippets of the tree.
For Mac, you could install the tree command following the instructions at this SuperUser.SE answer if you desire the same functionality.
/A switch and redirect to a file (tree /A /F > tree.txt), but that only uses ASCII characters. Alternatively, you can use Unicode by redirecting to an RTF file, opening it in Word, and converting from "Encoded Text" with MS-DOS encoding. In that case, the command is tree /F > tree.rtf.
For Windows there is tree /f
By default, tree just displays directories. The /f option displays files within each directory as well.
Just for completeness: On Mac OS X, this program tree is available through fink: fink install tree. (Probably available through MacPorts as well.) Of course you can also just download the source and compile it yourself.
