tree command on osx bash

Question

I'm following a screen cast on a ruby gem called pry. At 8:10, the .tree command is used, which I believe is a Unix command.

It does not appear to be working on my system:

[24] pry(main)> .tree
\Error: there was a problem executing system command: tree

and I have traced the issue to here, in which pry references a shell command:

Pry::CommandSet.new do

  command(/\.(.*)/, "All text following a '.' is forwarded to the shell.", :listing => ".<shell command>") do |cmd|
    if cmd =~ /^cd\s+(.+)/i
      dest = $1
      begin
        Dir.chdir File.expand_path(dest)
      rescue Errno::ENOENT
        output.puts "No such directory: #{dest}"
      end

    else
      if !system(cmd)
        output.puts "Error: there was a problem executing system command: #{cmd}"
      end
    end
  end

from the context of bash I tried using the command tree with no luck:

projects/sms(apps2)$ tree
-bash: tree: command not found
~/projects/sms(apps2)$ .tree
-bash: .tree: command not found

This looks incredibly useful, how can I get this command?

Answer 1

Using homebrew:

brew install tree

Using macports:

sudo port install tree

Using the source:

Follow these directions. (Caveat; you should use the flags/etc. that make sense.)

^{<rant>All systems should come with tree; I use it a lot. And we can post directory structures as text, not pics.</rant>}

Answer 2

For a simple approach you can also add the following alias to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file:

alias tree="find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'"

This results in the following:

$ tree
.
|____.git
| |____config
| |____objects
| | |____pack
| | |____info
| |____HEAD
| |____info
| | |____exclude
| |____description
| |____hooks
| | |____commit-msg.sample
| | |____pre-rebase.sample
| | |____pre-commit.sample
| | |____applypatch-msg.sample
| | |____pre-receive.sample
| | |____prepare-commit-msg.sample
| | |____post-update.sample
| | |____pre-applypatch.sample
| | |____pre-push.sample
| | |____update.sample
| |____refs
| | |____heads
| | |____tags

Found this solution here:

• http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/09/view-folder-tree-terminal-mac-os-tree-equivalent/