Using Mac Equivalent of Unix “tree” Command to View Folder Trees at Terminal

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Mac users with a unix background may appreciate to know how to implement the equivalent of the Unix “tree” command in macOS and Mac OS X. There are actually a few different ways to display a folder tree in Mac OS X’s Terminal, we’ll go through a simple boomequivalent handle that is reached through an alias, just like how to install native ‘tree’ on a Mac, just like you see in Ubuntu or elsewhere in Linux.

This is clearly intended for command line users, but if you spend more time in the Mac’s Finder you would appreciate having files and folder contents there recursively, which can be similar, but clearly no folder tree on the Terminal shows.

Create a tree equivalent to folder trees in Terminal for Mac OS X.

With a simple alias, you can view directory trees from the Mac OS command line:

1. Launch Terminal or iTerm if you haven’t already
2. Open your .bashrc or .zshrc profile in your favorite text editor, we use nano because nano is simple:

nano .zshrc

3. On a new line, paste the following alias:

alias tree = ”find. print | sed -e ‘s;* /; | ____; g; s; ____ |; |; g ‘”

4. Hit Control + O and Control + X to save and exit nano (or quit vim or emacs as usual), your folder tree printing command is now ready to use

Open a new Terminal or reload your Terminal profile and you are ready to use the new one boomalias.

Directory tree with ‘boom’on the Mac

Now that your alias has been implemented, you can ‘boom’command to show the hierarchical structure of the current working directory or directory on the command line. For example, if you are at the root / of a Mac and press’boom’displays the hierarchical structure of everything on the Mac (this takes a while and is not recommended, but provides a demonstration of how it works)

boom

The tree command is really best used in subdirectories with some level of containment, otherwise you will dump the entire file system structure out of the current working directory.

Install ‘Tree’ for the Mac command line

If you have some more control over ‘boom’like the ability to specify a folder, or if you just want the exact’boom’equivalent that comes from the unix world, you can use homebrew or macports to edit the boom Install directly in macOS and Mac OS X:

Install ‘Tree’ with Homebrew:

brew install boom

Install ‘Tree’ with MacPorts:

sudo port installation tree

I prefer Homebrew, but use whatever works for you. Once installed from either, typing ‘boom’show the folder tree of every folder on the Mac.

Note: To avoid conflicts, you don’t want to use an alias in the tree structure in the first step and then install the tree command as well. You can implement both, but you probably want to rename the alias to ‘treed’ or something similar.

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