"tree" command on MacOSX

http://shaunchapman.me/post/329270449/how-to-install-the-tree-command-on-mac-os-x

by evandrix • 14 years ago

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joethompson2• 14 years ago

Or, if you have Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) installed:

  brew install tree

nicholassmith• 14 years ago

Amazingly (and the comments on his blog also seem to jump on this), he does acknowledge that you can do it with a package manager. There's advantages to learning how to build something like this from source.

joethompson2• 14 years ago

True, learning how to build things from source yourself is definitely useful, I probably wouldn't be using Homebrew if I wasn't comfortable with that first. It's definitely advantageous to be able to organise/upgrade everything via it though.

cstuder• 14 years ago

Only in this case the learning effect isn't that great, because he doesn't explain the (to me) most confusing part: Why is the edit of the make file necessary? Isn't make responsible for choosing the right configuration settings for the current environment?

chj• 14 years ago

Very good utility. Thanks for the tip.

adamt• 14 years ago

And this is on the front page?! Apologies for the meta-discussion, but this highlights go me just how much HN has changed. This tutorial is simply download, untar, uncomment relevant (and labelled) lines of a makefile and type make.

melling• 14 years ago

To get on the front page, you only need a few upvotes in a short period of time. I don't think anything has changed. At this moment, it only has 6 votes.

It is a nice command that people will find useful. Stuff like this should get a few votes.

doe88• 14 years ago

I think in this case it hit the front page simply because people like me didn't know this tree command and immediately found it useful. That it be trivial to install is not the main point I think.

true_religion• 14 years ago

You only need to get a small amount of votes to appear on the frontpage, and its 3:14am now and 2:14am when you wrote that for HNs West Coast audience. I don't think there is much legitimate competition out there for this article.

spobo• 14 years ago

Not only that but it's 10 times easier with Homebrew. So it's an incorrect article imo. Shouldn't make the frontpage. Especially with that title.

gbin2• 14 years ago

Front page !? No offense but it is a brogrammer-class tip to be able to compile something on a mac...

gbin2• 14 years ago

# emerge tree

;)

mathieuh• 14 years ago

Useful `tree` aliases:

    alias l1 'tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 1'
    alias l2 'tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 2'
    alias l3 'tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 3'
    alias l4 'tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 4'
    alias l5 'tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 5'
    alias l6 'tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 6'

"tree" command on MacOSX

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