tree on mac os x ft. dart

Long time ago I wrote a small dart script which prints a light nice tree in the console. You can find it on github here: https://github.com/mrwonderman/dart-tree

Simply check it out and then use the following steps to integrate it. After that you can use it for example, the terminal of mac os x, which hasn’t got a native tree command.

1. edit your .profile file in your home directory

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2. add a new line, which contains something like that:

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vi can be a bit tricky. You need to press ‘i’ first to switch to the insert view. Then write the new line, press the ESC-key and write ‘:w’ and press enter. This saves the document. Type ‘:q’ to close the document. Use the location where you checked out the tree.dart script. Maybe you need to add dart to your PATH var, if you haven’t already:

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3. Restart the terminal and run tree in a folder of your choice:

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If you have any questions or feature-request, do let me know on github.

Yannick Signer