: Re: Writing a programming book: how to present directory structures What is good/preferred way of presenting directory trees in programming books? My main criteria are following: It should be readable

@Michele605

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Try
tree -d
at the CLI. Does pretty much what you want - automatically and should be easy to copy and paste into a document.

shelelia@halo:~$ tree -d installs
installs
├── bash_library
├── dropbox
│   ├── DEBIAN
│   ├── DropboxServiceMenu-0.16.1
│   │   └── dropbox-scripts
│   └── kde
├── HP
...

It looks better on a terminal than in this post.

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