macos – Mac OS X Equivalent of the Ubuntu ‘Tree’ Command

macosterminal.apptree

Is there an equivalent to the Ubuntu tree command for Mac OS X?

Best Answer

You can get the tree command on macOS, too. If you have Homebrew:

brew install tree

If you do not have Homebrew installed, try one approach below.

Installing a package manager approach

Follow the instructions on these websites to install Homebrew, MacPorts, or Fink. Do not install more than one package manager at the same time!

Follow the prompt for whichever you installed.

For Homebrew: brew install tree

For MacPorts: sudo port install tree

For Fink: fink install tree

Installing from source approach

Install the Xcode command line tools by running xcode-select --install.
Download the tree source
Change the Makefile to get it to work, which is also explained in @apuche's answer below. Commenting out the Linux options and uncommenting the macOS options should be enough.
Then, run ./configure, then make.
Now you have to move the tree binary file to a location that's in your executable path. For example:
```
 sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
 sudo cp tree /usr/local/bin/tree
```
Now edit ~/.bash_profile to include:
```
 export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
```
Reload the shell, and now which tree should point to /usr/local/bin/tree.

Related Solutions

Macos – Mac OS X “say” command in Ubuntu

espeak should be installed by default as text-to-speech engine on Linux.

You should be able to get it to speak from command-line by doing something like this:

echo "Text to speak"|espeak

You can also start espeak by just entering espeak itself, and then enter each line of text you want spoken followed by enter.

Other TTS engines for Linux you could look at:

Espeak is available at (but should be installed by default!):

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

Linux – Tree command list one level all files

For Windows XP or 7, the /F switch will also show filenames.

C:\>tree /?
Graphically displays the folder structure of a drive or path.

TREE [drive:][path] [/F] [/A]

   /F   Display the names of the files in each folder.
   /A   Use ASCII instead of extended characters.

However, I'm guessing you're on another OS since /L is not a valid switch on XP or 7.

On my Ubuntu VM (11.10), tree did not come pre-installed. sudo apt-get install tree fixed that quickly. Afterwards tree -L 1 worked just as you seem to want it to - it showed a tree of just the current directory, including files and directories. Adding the -a switch also included "hidden" files. It seems the default behavior of tree is to show both files and directories. This can be changed to directories only with the -d switch.

More details can be found in man tree or here: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/tree.htm

If you're having trouble, I suggest checking the ls of your pwd to make sure there actually are files in that directory. Also, check your file and folder permissions and view the man page for tree for more options.