Author: Lei Mao

Date: 1/14/2018

Printing directory tree is useful to present the direcotry architectures. Such directory trees could often be used in GitHub projects.

Boost C++ Library

This is the directory tree of the "Directory Tree Printer" folder.

.
├── tree.txt
├── tree_print
├── test_folder
│   ├── file1.txt
│   ├── file2.txt
│   └── folder_1
│       ├── file_3.txt
│       ├── file1.txt
│       ├── file2.txt
│       └── folder_2
│           ├── file1.txt
│           ├── file2.txt
│           └── folder_2
│               ├── file1.txt
│               ├── file2.txt
│               └── folder_2
├── tree_print.cpp
├── Makefile
├── demo
├── README.md
├── tree.h
└── tree.cpp

The executable file "tree_print" has been compiled on Ubuntu 16.04 using g++ 5.4.0. Ubuntu users should be able to use the program directly.

find . | xargs ./tree_print
find . | xargs ./tree_print > demo.txt

To compile the from the source code, simply run:

make

The name of folder and files should not have blanks. Because the program relies on the output from find command from Linux shell, and find could not correctly parsing the directory list to the C++ program arguments, there will be problems to present the directory structure containing blanks in the path. This might be fixed in the future if I have time.

Linux has similar packages to present directory tree.

On Ubuntu:

sudo apt install tree