Back in my (sucky) Windows days, I used the tree command to view the file hierarchy in a pretty display. I am aware of the find command, but to actually process any data in my clogged 241,416 folders/files from just checking each line is as possible as time travelling...
./build/CMakeFiles/cmake.check_cache ./build/CMakeFiles/Makefile.cmake ./build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp ./build/CMakeFiles/TargetDirectories.txt ./build/CMakeFiles/compilerid.dir ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/CMakeFiles/ ./build/cmake_install.cmake ./build/CMakeCache.txt ./build/Makefile ./build/compilerid ./CompilerID.kdev4 ./.kdev4 ./.kdev4/CompilerID.kdev4 ./main.cpp Output of find on one folder holding the files of a one-file, incomplete C++ project
On Windows, the tree command gave a diagram-like output that is human readable
Screenshot of the pretty tree command
So, my question is, is there anything graphically close to the Windows/DOS tree command?
32 Answers
Same command exist. To install, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:
sudo apt-get install tree 
You have tree command in linux. All you have to do is install it. It works very similar to the one in windows.
sudo apt-get install tree