Showing a Tree

In these GUIful days, where everything we do on a computer involves using the mouse pointer, sometimes there comes situations where we want an old-fashioned visualization of data.

For example, in these days I'm working hard on the restyling of an application which be released soon. This entails cutting old functions, adding comments, rewriting Makefiles, and rearranging the directory tree. Yes, the boring part off programming.

For easiness, I decided to print the whole directory tree listing of my project, to better visualize the changes I have to apply to my project. Thus, before coming into tree(1) I opted for the hard-coded solution, and produced this command:

ls -R | grep ":" | sed -e 's/://' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/   /' -e 's/-/|/'

Which will draw the currents' directory tree listing. Surely, using tree is much easier and more efficient, but this old-fashioned approach is what I like most!