This article spotlights alternative tools to tree.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
| Alternatives to tree | |
|---|---|
| broot | Next gen tree explorer and customizable launcher |
| alder | Minimal implementation of the tree command with colors |
| lstr | Fast, minimalist directory tree viewer |
| ictree | Like tree but interactive |
| tre | Modern alternative to the tree command |
| twf | Standalone tree view explorer inspired by fzf |
| Tree | Display a tree view of directories with color support |
| as-tree | Print a list of paths as a tree of paths |
| gtree | Generate trees and directories |
| stree | Visualize the directory tree structure of an S3 bucket |
| lstree | Wrapper script around ls to display a nice tree structure |
| tree++ | Display a tree with icons |
| treex | Fast, and customizable CLI directory viewe |
| wisu | Fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust |
| dirmap | Tool for generating a directory map |
| struct | Smarter tree command |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to tree? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // file // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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