http://qs1969.pair.com?node_id=1144644

I'm, every now and then, missing a "tree" command at places where I have to work.

And every now and then I "reinvent the wheel".

To put an end to this, I decided to present my current version here.

I hope it's useful to others and maybe I'll get some constructive feedback?

Update: Added AppleFritter's suggestion of hiding hidden files

#!/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long qw(:config no_ignore_case); use Pod::Usage; my ( $showall, # show hidden files $showfiles, # show also files $showlinks, # show also a symlink's target ); help() unless GetOptions( a => \$showall, l => \$showlinks, f => \$showfiles, 'h|help' => \&help, 'm|man' => \&man, ); sub help { pod2usage(-verbose=>1); } sub man { pod2usage(-verbose=>2); } my $indent = ' '; my $indir = '--'; foreach my $path (@ARGV ? @ARGV : '.') { print $path,"\n"; traverse($path, ''); } sub traverse { my ($path, $depth) = @_; # Open the directory opendir my $dh, $path or die "Couldn't read $path: $!\n"; # Get all directory content - leaving out files unless asked for my(@content) = grep { not /^\.\.?$/ and ( $showfiles or not -f "$path/$_" ) and ( $showall or /^[^.]/ ) } readdir $dh; closedir $dh; # How many eitems are in the directory? my $count= scalar @content; # Prepare the standard indent my $i= $depth . '|' . $indent; # Print all the elements foreach my $sub (@content) { my $p= "$path/$sub"; # Prepare the last indent $i= $depth . ' ' . $indent unless --$count; print $depth, ($count ? '|' : '\\'), $indir , $sub; # Is it a link? if ( -l $p ) { # Shall they be shown as such if ($showlinks) { print " -> ", readlink $p; } print "\n"; next; } print "\n"; # Done unless it's a directory next unless -d $p; traverse($p, $i); } return; } =head1 NAME tree - A script to show a "graphical" representation of a directory st +ructure =head1 SYNOPSIS tree [options] [path...] =head1 DESCRIPTION tree will show a "graphical" representation of a directory structure, +including all files (when B<-f> specified) and link targets (when B<-l> specifie +d). =head1 OPTIONS =over 4 =item B<-f> Show also files. =item B<-l> Shhow also link targets. =item B<-h> =item B<--help> show a short help page. =item B<-m> =item B<--man> Show the man-page. =back =head1 AUTHOR Skeeve of perlmonks.org (perlmonks DOT org DOT Skeeve at XoXy dot net) Including ideas of Apple Fritter, a fellow Perl monk =cut

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