Re: no "tree command"?


Subject: Re: no "tree command"?
From: H Brett Bolen (wingedlizard@nc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 07:16:02 MST


Timothy A. Seufert wrote:

> At 4:49 AM -0500 1/5/02, david wright wrote:
>
>> Why no "tree" command in YDL? i've used this in OpenLinux and Dos. No
>> "man tree" docs, no "locate tree", no "apropos tree" - well, not the one
>> i want.
>
>
> tree is a DOS-ism. OpenLinux probably had it only because that
> distribution might have tried to cater to people used to DOS.
>
> Try ls -R or ls -lR. You won't get the fancy ascii graphics, but do you
> really need them?

how about mc?

actually my rh6.2 box has a `tree` cmd. man tree gives the
author as Steve Baker ( ice@mama.indstate.edu ) and Thomas Moore,
it is a version 1.3 and is dated 1996.

it prints standard ascii, ascii graphics, colorized ascii, and html.

good luck finding it for mac



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