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Directory Tree layout

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Directory Tree layout

by  mrn  Posted    (Edited  )
I came across this handy one liner the other day. It produces a directory tree in the following style

.
|
|--/var
| |_tmp
|-bin
|-input

find . -type d -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'

all on one line

the ____ is _ _ _ _ without the spaces
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