ASCII Library for Creating “Pretty” Directory Trees?

Question

Is there some *nix tool or perl/php library that will let you easily create directory tree visualizations that look like the following?

www
|-- private
|             


        

Answer 1

Have a look at App::Asciio  

Answer 2

That oneliner is pretty cool, I'd recommend using the tree util.

bash-3.2$ mkdir -p this/is/some/nested/example
bash-3.2$ mkdir -p this/is/another/super/nested/example
bash-3.2$ mkdir -p this/is/yet/another/example
bash-3.2$ mkdir -p this/is/some/nested/other/example
bash-3.2$ tree this
this
`-- is
    |-- another
    |   `-- super
    |       `-- nested
    |           `-- example
    |-- some
    |   `-- nested
    |       |-- example
    |       `-- other
    |           `-- example
    `-- yet
        `-- another
            `-- example

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Answer 3

I realize this question was answered ages ago, but I just found this program called tree which is pretty cool too.

Answer 4

exa with --tree does an excellent job:

exa --tree ~/tmp/public/

<dir>
├── aboutme
│  └── index.html
├── atrecurse
│  └── index.html
├── base.css
├── html5
│  ├── cat-and-mouse
│  └── frantic
│     ├── css
│     │  └── main.css

Answer 5

How about this example from Unix Tree / Linux Tree:

ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/   /' -e 's/-/|/'  

Answer 6

Cool Python script to do it: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/217212/