ok got it done. i didnt use tree because im trying to avoid using cpan for this project. heres the code if someones interested: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

($dir) = @ARGV;
open (MYFILE, '>>data.txt') || die;
&loopDir($dir, "");
exit;

sub loopDir {
    $dir = "." unless $dir;
    local($dir, $margin) = @_;
    chdir($dir) || die "Cannot chdir to $dir\n";
    local(*DIR);
    opendir(DIR, ".");
    while ($f=readdir(DIR)) {
        next if ($f eq "." || $f eq "..");
        print MYFILE "$margin$f\n";
        if (-d $f) {
            &loopDir($f,$margin."   ");
        }
    }
    closedir(DIR);
    chdir("..");
}
close (MYFILE);

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