On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Dianne Skoll wrote:
Filtering is the way to go, IMO. This worked for me on Debian Buster:
tree -F | sed -e 's/|/ /g' -e 's/`/ /g' -e 's/ -- / /g'
Interestingly, does not work on Ubuntu 18.04. The tree bar elements appear
to be real graphic characters.
so instead:
tree -F | sed -e 's/│/ /g' -e 's/`/ /g' -e 's/ ─ / /g' -e 's/├//' -e 's/└//' -e 's/─//g'
I do love how you can copy and paste stdout UTF8 chars into command line
tools. It makes it SO much easier sometimes.
As does being able to start a file name with spaces in it with '
and have tab completion nicely complete it without a ton of '\ '
Unless you have files with "|", "`" or " -- " in their names, you should
be safe.
Nah. What are the chances of that...? :-)
(certainly less so, when tree outputs graphic chars that are even less
likely to be part of a file or dir name. ya, right... Hmm, those could
make a pretty confusing filename, I'll have to try that sometime :-))
Brett