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I created a 'cron' subdirectory in /var/log/ . It is: /var/log/cron Within /var/log/cron I've created numerous sub-directories to store my log files for cron jobs. I am wondering if there is a way ...
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I can't solve what I want using the tree, du, or df commands. I'm using: du version 9.6 tree version 2.2.1 What I want: For the current directory, list all directories recursively to a depth of 3, ...
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I know about the .info file functionality with the tree command and would like to use this in one of my bash scripts. I played around in the terminal and have the following structure: test ...
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I have a command to list the tree of a specific process number. So I did this: ps f -u "${USER}" --pid 1234 -eo command,pid,ppid,tty | awk 'NR <= 1 {print; next} !/awk/ && $0 ~ ...
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I just installed tree via sudo apt-get install tree and my terminal suddenly decided to update grub. Last week, I installed tree, and a similar thing happened. However, when I restarted my PC later ...
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I'm trying to sort by size: % tree -axCF --du --sort=size | grep -e '/$' ├── [ 8658884] 2022-10-09-backup/ ├── [ 5923934] f24-01-22-backup/ ├── [ 5384825] e2023-01-19-backup/ ├── [ ...
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By default, tree shows this: $ tree . ├── Package.resolved ├── Package.swift ├── Sources │   └── SwiftClientSDK │   ├── OpenAPI.yaml │   ├── SwiftClientSDK.swift │   └── openapi-generator-...
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I would like tree to display the hw files in the sub-directories like this: . ├── exp │   └── hw ├── src │   └── hw.cpp2 └── tmp └── hw.cpp $ /usr/bin/tree --noreport . displays all of the files:...
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I gave the command tree -J to my machine, and this is a portion of the output it gave: { "type": "file", "name": &...
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Is it possible to use tree to create several output files without being cd ~/ into the directory I want to create a tree file? For example, I have a directory called parent-dir. Inside of parent-dir ...
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I want to keep only the last line of tree's output or the file+directory count report. Preferably, with the -a switch. An example output I desire: 585 directories, 37722 files Is this possible with ...
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Say I have a directory structure that looks like this: foo |-- bar | |-- 1 | |-- 2 | |-- 3 | |-- baz | | |-- 4 | | |-- 5 | | |-- 6 | | |-- moo | | | |-- 7 | | | |-- ...
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I've tried something like this tree -C | fzf --ansi | awk -F'|' '{print $NF}' ├── repo.git/ │   ├── folder/ │   │   ├── subfolder/ │   │   │   ├── output.0 │   │   │   └── traces.1 │   │   ├── ...
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Ubuntu. Tree. tree -fi /path/to/the/directory >~/file.txt I see the files in terminal but was under the impression that a text file called 'file.txt' would be generated, but I can't find it.
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I already used pass program for password managing on MacOS with zsh (where the autocompletion worked flawlessly out of the box) and now trying to move on linux on a raspberry pi 4b 4GB, installed zsh ...
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I'm creating a script that generates a project folder into another folder along with some other module folders. I want to show how the generated project folder structure looks in the final tree but ...
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I want to preview the structure of a folder with tree -d. However, some subfolder has too many subfolders, which prevent me to preview the whole tree at a glance, so I want a argument such as --...
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man tree1 states: -info Prints file comments found in .info files. See .INFO FILES below for more information on the format of .info files. and further .INFO FILES .info files are similiar to ....
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For the following tree structure: . └── dir1 └── dir2 └── dir3 What would be a simple way to create a file (could be empty), for every directory, so the resulting tree will look like: ...
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We all love the tree command, but it would be amazing to have the icons next to the files, as both the file browser of VSC or Color Ls have. Does anyone know any way to implement it?
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I'm searching a large number of text files which are organized in various subdirectories. I can run a command such as grep -lr foobar ./, and I get results like the following: ./dirA/dirA.A/abc.txt ./...
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I'm using tree on a directory which has -- among other things -- some Audacity projects in it. Each Audacity project is some file X.aup, along side a directory X_data, which contains a few sub-...
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If I have a text-file with a structured list like this: #linux ##audio ###sequenzer ####qtractor ###drummachine ####hydrogen ##scores ###lilypond ###musescore ##bureau ###kalender ####calcurse ###...
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What is the situation why ls -l returns a list of subdirectories in the form below? d????????? ? ? ? ? ? Subdirectory A tree launched on that directory returns 0 directories, 0 files for ...
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I am using tree and diff to compare a local directory with a USB backup version of the same directory, and to identify noteworthy / discardable differences. $ cd home/dir/ $ tree --charset=ascii -af . ...
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I found a script that makes a file list. The list looks like this /home/usr/example_directory /home/usr/example_directory/file1.txt /home/usr/example_directory/file2.txt /home/usr/different_directory /...
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There are obviously many ways to do the same job in Linux, but I recently needed to for i in xxx through a list of each item, recursively in a tree. I found a solution with tree by doing tree -fail (...
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When you generate a tree for a large directory base with innumerable sub-directories and associated files, with -a option, often you get a large file with thousands of lines. While traversing the tree ...
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I'm trying to understand what files or build artifacts are created by the build system of a C++ project. There are 3 steps to building this project: ./autogen.sh ./configure make Is there a way I ...
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I have millions of files which filenames are SHA256 hashes of the content. Due to performance reasons I do not want to store them in a single directory. My idea is to have directory structure based on ...
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How can I use tree and either grep or find in conjunction to find, for example, csv files using ".csv" as a file extension: ├── ./Videos ├── ./vscode │   ├── ./vscode/foo.csv │   ├── ./...
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I "inherited" management of a system, whose "/opt" (and some other large directory trees) are stored in the root file system. My wish now is to create a new filesystem in the rpool ...
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I am trying to index some LTO tapes (and some hard disks as well) and would like a simple output, stored in a text file. Something like the example below: ... /home/norg/Desktop/empty\ dir/ /home/norg/...
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I'm trying to view files modified before or after a certain date using the hierarchical output of the Unix tree command. For example, I know that one can use tree to sort files chronologically and ...
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I want to find user, size, modified date and full file path of all files in sub-directories starting from a dir. I have got to following so far: nohup sudo \ tree /work/mydir \ -sufiD \ --noreport \ --...
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I need to draw the tree structure of the following code. cd /; mkdir a b c a/a b/a; cd a; mkdir ../e ../a/f ../b/a/g; cd../b/./; mkdir /a/k a/b ../a/./b /c I know that: cd /; (goes to root) , mkdir ...
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Is there an alternative to tree command (or some way using the tree command itself) to print the directory structure horizontally? Quite often, I have a tree structure, for which I have to scroll a ...
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I am not sure I correctly understood what is a path name component (or perhaps better written; path name-component) which I understand to be commonly abbreviated simply as "component" in the Unix &...
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I use the term "container file" to describe any file which practically contains one file or two or more files. Some examples would be a tar archive or a directory. Let's say I open a tar archive with ...
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I've been searching for this for a while and didn't get a satisfactory answer for it. I've taken this screenshot from the output of Gnu/Linux's tree command. I want to know how to draw or print lines ...
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How to list files recursively, in alphabetical order and without lines that show exclusively folder names? For example, I can get the following output with tree --dirsfirst -fihan * -o filelist: 00.-...
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I need to replace indentation in tree output with + signs so that instead of this: $ tree --noreport dir dir ├── dir1 │ ├── file1 │ └── file2 └── dir2 ├── file1 └── file2 it'd print this: ...
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Why the last tree is not finding fstab? tree /etc -P fstab --prune /etc └── fstab 0 directories, 1 file . tree /etc -P fsta* --prune /etc └── fstab 0 directories, 1 file . tree /etc -P *...
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is there a nice way to combine: ls -R | grep "^[.]/" | sed -e "s/:$//" -e "s/[^\/]*\//--/g" -e "s/^/ |/" (displays directory as tree) with du -h ... (for each listed dir) Without installing any ...
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I'm trying to use the tree command to list my current git directory. I want to exclude every files that match a gitignore pattern. The solution found here seems promising. Unfortunately it seems ...
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So here's an excerpt of my directory tree: |-- 20070214_014700.a | |-- info | |-- processed | |-- HH.EL..BHZ | |-- AZ.AS..HHZ | |-- (hundreds more) | |-- raw | ...
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Is there a way that I can get a resulted output to multiple locations at the same time. ls -RsgorCh >> /Users/User1/Text1.txt will print the output as a text file in the given location. I want ...
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I'm in a directory where running tree command produces something like this: ├── directory1 │  └── image_sequence │  ├── image.0001.jpg │  ├── image.0002.jpg │  ├── image.0003.jpg │  ...
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I am wondering if it's possible to output the contents of a tar.gz file using tree without having to extract the contents of the file to a temp directory then using tree with that directory. I know ...
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I'm looking for a program that takes the output of iptables -S and converts it to a breadth-first listing. Why? I'm doing some work on a router using VyOS where several layers of tables are pre-...
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